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1.nounA colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
2.nounGin rummy.
3.nounDrawing the best card or combination of cards."Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out."
4.nounA trick; a device or instrument.
5.nounContrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
6.nounA snare or trap for game.
7.nounA machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
8.nounA hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
9.nounA pile driver.
10.nounA windpump.
11.nounA cotton gin.
12.nounAn instrument of torture worked with screws.
13.verbTo remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
14.verbTo trap something in a gin.
15.verbTo begin.
16.nounAn Aboriginal woman.