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gin
Noun
  • A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
  • Gin rummy. uncountable
  • Drawing the best card or combination of cards. poker
Noun
  • A trick; a device or instrument. obsolete
  • Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. obsolete
  • A snare or trap for game.
  • A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
  • A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim. mining
  • A pile driver.
  • A windpump.
  • A cotton gin.
  • An instrument of torture worked with screws.
Verb
  • To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin. transitive
  • To trap something in a gin. transitive
Verb
  • To begin. archaic
Noun
  • An Aboriginal woman. Australia, now considered offensive