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gin

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪn/

The English word “gin” has 17 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. Gin rummy.
  3. Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
  4. A trick; a device or instrument.
  5. A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
  6. A snare or trap for game.
  7. 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.
  8. A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
  9. A pile driver.
  10. A windpump.
  11. A cotton gin.
  12. An instrument of torture worked with screws.
  13. An Aboriginal woman.

verb

  1. To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
  2. To trap something in a gin.
  3. To begin.

conjunction

  1. If.

Etymology

Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).

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