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English Dictionary: gin	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for gin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gin n strong liquor flavored with juniper berries a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose Synonym(s): snare, gin, noose a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers Synonym(s): cotton gin, gin a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points Synonym(s): gin, gin rummy, knock rummy v separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin trap with a snare; "gin game"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gin \Gin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ginned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ginning}.] 1. To catch in a trap. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gin \Gin\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gin \Gin\, n. [A contraction of engine.] 1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. --Chaucer. Spenser. 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. --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gin \Gin\, prep. [AS. ge[a0]n. See {Again}.] Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] --A. Ross (1778).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gin \Gin\, conj. [See {Gin}, prep.] If. [Scotch] --Jamieson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gin \Gin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gan}, {Gon} ([?]), [or] {Gun} ([?]); 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[c6]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [?] See {Yawn}, v. i., and cf. {Begin}.] To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See {Gan}. [Obs. or Archaic] [bd]He gan to pray.[b8] --Chaucer.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
GIN A special-purpose {macro assembler} used to build the {GEORGE 3} {operating system} for {ICL1900} series computers. (1994-11-02)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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.)