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noun Gin n. A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
Gin n. 1.Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. 2.(a)A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc. (b)(Mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim. 3.A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin. Note: The name is also given to an instrument of torture worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary sails. Gin block, a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel, over which a rope runs; called also whip gin, rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel. Gin power, a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin. Gin race, or Gin ring, the path of the horse when putting a gin in motion. Gin saw, a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibers through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper. Gin wheel. (a)In a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fiber through the grid; a brush wheel to clean away the lint. (b)(Mining) the drum of a whim.
verb Gin v. t. (past & past part. ginned; pres. part. ginning) 1.To catch in a trap. (Obs.) 2.To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
Gin v. i. (past & past part. gan, gon or gun; pres. part. ginning) To begin; often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. (Obs. or Archaic) "He gan to pray."
preposition Gin prep. Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. (Scot.)
conjunction Gin conj. If. (Scotch)
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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