gin

noun · verb · conjunctionA1

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noun

Plural noun:

gins

1.
(countable, uncountable)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.
2.
(uncountable)Gin rummy.
3.
(countable, uncountable)(poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.
4.
(obsolete)A trick; a device or instrument.
5.
(obsolete)A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
6.
A snare or trap for game.
7.
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.
8.
(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
9.
A pile driver.
10.
A windpump.
11.
A cotton gin.
12.
An instrument of torture worked with screws.

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verb

V_es/s

gins

V_ing/Gerund

ginning

V_ed/pp

ginnedgan

1.
(transitive)To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
2.
(transitive)To trap something in a gin.
3.
(Early, Modern, archaic)(archaic, Early Modern) To begin.

conjunction

1.
(Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland, Southern US)(chiefly Scotland, Northern England, Southern US, Appalachia) If.

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geneva Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (juniper) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (juniper). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).