gin
IPA: dʒˈɪn
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.
- (uncountable) Gin rummy.
- (poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
- (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
- (obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
- 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.
- (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
- A pile driver.
- A windpump.
- A cotton gin.
- An instrument of torture worked with screws.
- (Australia, now considered offensive) An Aboriginal woman.
- An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.
verb
- (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
- (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
- (archaic) To begin.
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Examples of "gin" in Sentences
- And the gin is all light and fragrant with hints of lemon and orange.
- I gin it to you, an 'ole granny Thomas 'gin in' when she seed it, an 'said you mus' be good.
- THE TRICK For me, the hardest part of making sloe gin is keeping my patience while it mellows.
- I can even see a boost in gin sales as some of the crazies fail to grasp the meaning of the phrase.
- Sloe gin is just the tipple for warming up cold days, but you have to think ahead and make it now so the rock-hard, purple-black fruits have time to flavour the gin.
- While there are plenty of writers who fall into the above category, there are plenty of writers who are not soaked in gin, puffing away on opium pipe, as their latest lover sleeps on.
- Warren also says Berkshire, and I would have adopt this for the Post company, does not play what he calls gin rummy management in which you discard a business at every turn to try to do something with the stock price.
- But there may be sic a thing as loupin 'into the sea o' life oot o 'the ark o' salvation; an 'gin ye loup in whan he doesna call ye, or gin ye getna a grip o' his han ', whan he does, ye're sure to droon, as sure's ane o' the swine that ran heedlong in and perished i 'the water. "
- In addition to this analysis I have also one of Messrs. Peters 'gin, equally satisfactory, and as Van Hoytima and Peters are the two great suppliers of the gin that goes to West Africa, I think the above is an answer to the "poison" statements, and should be sufficient evidence against it for all people who are not themselves absolute teetotalers.
- I'm thinkin 'gin ane o' the bairnies that he took upo ''s knee, -- an' he was ill-pleased wi 'them' at wad hae sheued them awa ', -- gin ane o' them had hauden up his wee timmer horsie, wi 'a broken leg, and had prayed him to work a miracle an' men 'the leg, he wadna hae wrocht a miracle maybe, I daursay, but he wad hae smilet, or maybe lauchen a wee, and he wad hae men't the leg some gait or ither to please the bairnie.
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