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9 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gin \Gin\, prep. [AS. ge['a]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[=i]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] ``He gan to pray.'' --Chaucer. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gin n 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}] v 1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin 2: trap with a gin; "gin game" From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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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