"zigzagger" meaning in English

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          "text": "Join the pieces with overlapping seams and finish off by stitching with the zigzagger attachment.",
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          "ref": "1954, Kiplinger's Personal Finance",
          "text": "If a woman had the finest conventional sewing machine with all the attachments ever made, she could not do one tenth of the work that can be done on a modern zigzagger.",
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          "ref": "2005, Before the fall: an inside view of the pre-Watergate White House",
          "text": "That is what has long worried many people about Nixon: they saw him as the political man, the born trimmer, the zigzagger and flipflopper, the constantly moving target",
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          "ref": "2006, John A. Hall, Ralph Schroeder, An anatomy of power: the social theory of Michael Mann",
          "text": "As a self-avowed 'zigzagger' who works back and forth between historical particularities and sociological categories,",
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          "text": "In the view of Greenberg and his colleagues, Clinton […] was a zigzagger who tailored his views to suit voters.",
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