gin, gin rummy, knock rummy
(noun) a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
snare, gin, noose
(noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
gin
(noun) strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
gin
(verb) trap with a snare; “gin game”
gin
(verb) separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins)
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.
gin (plural gins)
(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
(obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a 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.
gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past and past participle ginned)
(transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
(transitive) To trap something in a gin.
gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past gan, past participle gun)
(archaic) To begin.
gin (plural gins)
(Australia, now considered offensive) An Aboriginal woman.
• lubra
gin
(chiefly, Southern US, Appalachian, Scotland) If.
• -ing, -ĂŻng, GNI, IGN, NGI, ing, nig
Source: Wiktionary
Gin, prep. Etym: [AS. geán. See Again.]
Definition: Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] A. Ross (1778).
Gin, conj. Etym: [See Gin, prep.]
Definition: If. [Scotch] Jamieson.
Gin, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gan, Gon (Gun (p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] Etym: [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. ginan to yawn, and E. yawn. Yawn, v. i., and cf. Begin.]
Definition: To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] "He gan to pray." Chaucer.
Gin, n. Etym: [Contr. from Geneva. See 2d Geneva.]
Definition: 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.
Gin, n. Etym: [A contraction of engine.]
1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. Chaucer. Spenser.
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.
3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
Note: The name is also given to an instrument of torture worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary sails. 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.
Gin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ginned; p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.]
1. To catch in a trap. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 March 2025
(adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle; “an indwelling divinity”; “an indwelling goodness”
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.
