Definitions for the word "gin" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. conj.
If.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To catch in a trap.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
Spirit made from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries. [dutch geneva: related to *juniper]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. n.
1 snare, trap. 2 machine separating cotton from its seeds. 3 a kind of crane and windlass. v. (-nn-) 1 treat (cotton) in a gin. 2 trap. [french: related to *engine]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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