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Meaning:
Noun:
- A 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.
- A cotton gin.
- A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.
- A pile driver.
- A snare or trap for game.
- A windpump.
- Australia||now considered|_|offensive An Aboriginal woman.
- gin rummy
- obsolete A trick; a device or instrument.
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Verb:
- archaic To begin.
- transitive To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
- transitive To trap something in a gin.
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