1. an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries.
2. an alcoholic liquor similar to this, made by redistilling spirits with flavoring agents, especially juniper berries, orange peel, angelica root, etc.

1. cotton gin: Did Whitney's invention of the gin actually enable an expansion in the slave trade?
2. a trap or snare for game: They learned how to devise a simple gin for catching rabbits and quail and such.
3. any of various machines employing simple tackle or windlass mechanisms for hoisting: She finished developing her father's design of a gin that would facilitate safer movement of large parts in the manufacturing plant.
4. a stationary prime mover having a drive shaft rotated by horizontal beams pulled by horses walking in a circle: The gins were activated by teams of horses to power the pulley system that hauled the coal out of the mines.

5. to clear (cotton) of seeds with a gin: The weather's fine today for ginning cotton.
6. to snare (game): Hey! Looks like you ginned a woodcock.

1. to begin: At twilight, gin we our leave.

1. a variety of rummy for two players, in which a player with 10 or fewer points in unmatched cards can end the game by laying down the hand: They get together ever Tuesday for a friendly game of gin.
2. the winning of such a game by laying down a full set of matched cards, earning the winner a bonus of 20 or 25 points: Sorry, but that's gin for me again.

3. to win a game in gin by laying down a hand in which all 10 cards are included in sets: How many times has she ginned tonight?

1. if; whether: It's a beast of a river to cross, gin ye dare.

1. an Aboriginal woman.
2. an Aboriginal wife.

1. an alcoholic drink obtained by distillation and rectification of the grain of malted barley, rye, or maize, flavoured with juniper berries
2. any of various grain spirits flavoured with other fruit or aromatic essences
3. an alcoholic drink made from any rectified spirit

1. a primitive engine in which a vertical shaft is turned by horses driving a horizontal beam or yoke in a circle
2. a machine of this type used for separating seeds from raw cotton
3. a trap for catching small mammals, consisting of a noose of thin strong wire
4. a hand-operated hoist that consists of a drum winder turned by a crank

5. to free (cotton) of seeds with a gin
6. to trap or snare (game) with a gin

1. an archaic word for begin

1. if

1. an Aboriginal woman

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