gin
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
gin
n 1: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
2: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
[syn: {snare}, {gin}, {noose}]
3: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
[syn: {cotton gin}, {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}, {gin rummy}, {knock rummy}]
v 1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
2: trap with a snare; "gin game"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gin \Gin\ (g[i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gan} (g[a^]n), {Gon}
(g[o^]n), or {Gun} (g[u^]n); 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[imac]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [root]31. 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.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gin \Gin\, n. [A contraction of engine.]
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1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. --Chaucer.
Spenser.
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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.
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3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton
gin.
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Note: The name is also given to an instrument of torture
worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary
sails.
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{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.
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from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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.)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "gin":
Angostura bitters, Canadian, Canadian whiskey, Cognac, Dionaea,
Grand Champagne, Irish, Irish whiskey, Kirsch, Scotch,
Scotch whiskey, absinthe, allure, bait the hook, baited trap,
birdlime, bitters, blended whiskey, bolt, booby trap, bourbon,
brandy, catch, catch out, clean rum, cordon, cordon off, cull out,
deadfall, deathtrap, decoy, divide, eau de vie, enmesh, ensnare,
ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, enweb, filament, firetrap,
flytrap, ghettoize, grog, hook, hook in, insulate, inveigle,
isolate, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, light whiskey, lime,
lure, malt whiskey, marc, mescal, mesh, mine, mole trap, moonshine,
mousetrap, net, noose, ouzo, pick out, pitfall, plum brandy,
put aside, quarantine, raki, rattrap, riddle, rum, rye,
rye whiskey, schnapps, screen, seclude, segregate, separate,
set apart, set aside, set gun, shred, sieve, sift, slivovitz,
snare, snarl, sniggle, sort out, spin, spirits, spread the toils,
spring gun, tangle, tequila, thrash, thresh, trap, trapfall, trip,
vodka, whiskey, wind, winnow
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