Gigs [noun]

The backs of the gigs were sheltered from the road by a hedge of lilacs, and over the gateway a gigantic elm kept watch and ward.

We rode in a gig, and our animal was a steady-going mare, and behaved as such; but all had not gigs or steady-going mares.

Every minute I was expectin' to see the Helen's gigs swarmin' out, and then it wouldn't be pickin's we'd get but leavin's.

The boats were one long-boat, which pulled eight oars, and carried in all sixteen men, and two large swift-rowing gigs.

Through the fleet pulled swift gigs bearing the commanders of the different vessels.

Gigs were at high rival speed along the road from the battle-field to London.

Oh, I took a little run up here in one of them new-fangled gasolene gigs, replied the sheriff, with a grin.

Sitting one evening in the porch of Monticello, two gigs drove up, each containing a gentleman and lady.

Many regattas offered prizes for pair oars with coxswains in outrigged gigs.

This offers less resistance, and before long builders constructed so-called ‘gigs’ for racing purposes, which were carvel built.