Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Gin"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gin \Gin\, prep. [AS. ge['a]n. See {Again}.]
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] --A. Ross
(1778).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gin \Gin\, conj. [See {Gin}, prep.]
If. [Scotch] --Jamieson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gin \Gin\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gan}, {Gon} (?), or {Gun} (?);
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[=i]nan to
yawn, and E. yawn. ? 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gin \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gin \Gin\, n. [Contr. from Geneva. See 2d {Geneva}.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gin \Gin\, n. [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gin
n 1: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
2: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose [syn: {snare},
{noose}]
3: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
[syn: {cotton 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
rummy}, {knock rummy}]
v 1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
2: trap with a gin; "gin game"
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