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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
gin
n 1: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
2: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
[syn: snare, gin, noose]
3: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
[syn: cotton gin, gin]
4: a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards
remaining in their hand total less than 10 points [syn:
gin, gin rummy, knock rummy]
v 1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
2: trap with a snare; "gin game"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Gin \Gin\ (j[i^]n), n. [Contr. from Geneva. See 2d Geneva.]
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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Gin \Gin\, n. [A contraction of engine.]
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1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. --Chaucer.
Spenser.
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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.
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3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton
gin.
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Note: The name is also given to an instrument of torture
worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary
sails.
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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. --Halliwell.
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.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Gin \Gin\, prep. [AS. ge['a]n. See Again.]
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] --A. Ross
(1778).
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Gin \Gin\, conj. [See Gin, prep.]
If. [Scotch] --Jamieson.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Gin \Gin\ (g[i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gan (g[a^]n), Gon
(g[o^]n), or Gun (g[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] [OE.
ginnen, AS. ginnan (in comp.), prob. orig., to open, cut
open, cf. OHG. inginnan to begin, open, cut open, and prob.
akin to AS. g[imac]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [root]31. See
Yawn, v. i., and cf. Begin.]
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as,
gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] "He gan to pray."
--Chaucer.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Gin \Gin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ginned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ginning.]
1. To catch in a trap. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
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8. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
GIN
A special-purpose macro assembler used to build the GEORGE
3 operating system for ICL1900 series computers.
(1994-11-02)
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9. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary |
Gin
a trap. (1.) Ps. 140:5, 141:9, Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used,
_mokesh_, means a noose or "snare," as it is elsewhere rendered
(Ps. 18:5; Prov. 13:14, etc.).
(2.) Job 18:9, Isa. 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and
hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler (Ps. 69: 22,
"Let their table before them become a net;" Amos 3:5, "Doth a
bird fall into a net [pah] upon the ground where there is no
trap-stick [mokesh] for her? doth the net [pah] spring up from
the ground and take nothing at all?", Gesenius.)
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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