gin

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gin1

▶noun

• 1 a clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries.

• 2 (also gin rummy) a form of the card game rummy.

– origin C18: abbrev. of genever.

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gin2

▶noun

• 1 a machine for separating cotton from its seeds.

• 2 a machine for raising and moving heavy weights.

• 3 a trap for catching small game.

▶verb (gins, ginning, ginned) treat (cotton) in a gin.

– derivatives
ginner noun,
ginnery noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘a tool or device, a trick’): from OFr. engin (see engine).

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gin3

▶noun Austral. offensive an Aboriginal woman.

– origin from Dharuk diyin ‘woman, wife’.