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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