From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gin \Gin\ (j[i^]n), 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.
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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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gin \Gin\, prep. [AS. ge['a]n. See Again.]
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] --A. Ross
(1778).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gin \Gin\, conj. [See Gin, prep.]
If. [Scotch] --Jamieson.
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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\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ginned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ginning.]
1. To catch in a trap. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
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