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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gin \Gin\, preposition [AS. ge['a]n. See {Again}.] Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] --A. Ross (1778).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gin \Gin\, conj. [See {Gin}, preposition ] If. [Scotch] --Jamieson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gin \Gin\ (g[i^]n), verb (used without an object) [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[=i]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [root]31. See {Yawn}, verb (used without an object), 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gin \Gin\ (j[i^]n), noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gin \Gin\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gin \Gin\, noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gin
noun
1: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
2: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose [syn: {snare}, {noose}]
3: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers [syn: {cotton 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 rummy}, {knock rummy}]
verb
1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
2: trap with a snare; "gin game" [also: {ginning}, {ginned}, {gan}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "gin": Angostura bitters, Canadian, Canadian whiskey, Cognac, Dionaea, Grand Champagne, Irish, Irish whiskey, Kirsch, Scotch, Scotch whiskey, absinthe, allure, bait the hook, baited trap, birdlime, bitters, blended whiskey, bolt, booby trap, bourbon, brandy, catch, catch out, clean rum, cordon, cordon off, cull out, deadfall, deathtrap, decoy, divide, eau de vie, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, enweb, filament, firetrap, flytrap, ghettoize, grog, hook, hook in, insulate, inveigle, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, light whiskey, lime, lure, malt whiskey, marc, mescal, mesh, mine, mole trap, moonshine, mousetrap, net, noose, ouzo, pick out, pitfall, plum brandy, put aside, quarantine, raki, rattrap, riddle, rum, rye, rye whiskey, schnapps, screen, seclude, segregate, separate, set apart, set aside, set gun, shred, sieve, sift, slivovitz, snare, snarl, sniggle, sort out, spin, spirits, spread the toils, spring gun, tangle, tequila, thrash, thresh, trap, trapfall, trip, vodka, whiskey, wind, winnow
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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.)
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