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Definition of 'gin'

noun

Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries

noun

A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose [syn: snare, gin, noose]

noun

A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers [syn: cotton gin, gin]

noun

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]

verb

Separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin

verb

Trap with a snare; "gin game"

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

Gin \Gin\, prep. [AS. ge['a]n. See Again.] Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] --A. Ross (1778). [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Gin \Gin\, n. [A contraction of engine.] [1913 Webster]
1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. --Chaucer. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin. [1913 Webster]
Note: The name is also given to an instrument of torture worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary sails. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

Gin a trap.
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.).
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.)