noun. Gin rummy.

noun. A strong colorless alcoholic beverage made by distilling or redistilling rye or other grain spirits and adding juniper berries and sometimes other flavorings such as anise, caraway seeds, or angelica root.

noun. Any of several machines or devices, especially.

noun. A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.

noun. A pile driver.

noun. A snare or trap for game.

noun. A pump operated by a windmill.

noun. A cotton gin.

transitive verb. To remove the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin.

transitive verb. To trap in a gin.

phrasal verb. To create or produce; work up.

phrasal verb. To create or produce under false pretenses.

phrasal verb. To increase or make more active.

To begin (which see).

[In Middle English the preterit of this verb (gan, gon, can, con, etc.) was much used with a following infinitive, with or without to, as having, besides its regular inceptive meaning ‘began to,’ a merely preterit force, being equivalent to the simple preterit of the second verb: as, he gan go, equivalent to he did go or he went. This auxiliary was supplanted in the fifteenth century by did, though its use, as an archaism, continued much later.

To catch in a trap.

To clear (cotton) of seeds by means of the cotton-gin.

noun. An Australian native woman; an old woman generally.

noun. A contraction of given.

noun. An aromatic spirit prepared from rye or other grain and flavored with juniper-berries.

Against (a certain time); by: as, I′ ll be there gin five o′ clock.

If; suppose.

noun. I. Contrivance; crafty means; artifice.

noun. A mechanical contrivance; a machine; an engine.

noun. An engine of torture.

noun. A machine used instead of a crane, consisting essentially of three poles from 12 to 15 feet in length, often tapering from the lower extremity to the top, and united at their upper extremities, whence a block and tackle is suspended, the lower extremities being planted in the ground about 8 or 9 feet asunder, and having a windlass attached to two of them.

noun. In coal-mining, the machinery for raising ore or coal from a mine by horse-power. [Eng.] Generally called whim or whim-gin in the United States.

noun. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton, hence called a cotton-gin. See cut undercotton-gin.

noun. A machine for driving piles.

noun. A pump moved by rotary sails.

noun. A trap; a snare; a springe.

conjunction. If.

transitive verb. To catch in a trap.

transitive verb. To clear of seeds by a machine.

preposition. Against; near by; towards.

noun. 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.

intransitive verb. To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to. See gan.

noun. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

noun. undefined

noun. 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.

noun. A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

noun. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

noun. a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel, over which a rope runs; -- called also whip gin, rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel.

noun. a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin.

noun. the path of the horse when putting a gin in motion.

noun. undefined

noun. a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibers through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper.

noun. the drum of a whim.

verb. To begin.

noun. A trick; a device or instrument.

"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."

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