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   Gin , prep. [AS. geán. See Again.] Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.]
   A. Ross (1778).
   
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   Gin, conj. [See Gin, prep.] If. [Scotch]
   Jamieson.
   
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   Gin , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gan , Gon (gŏn), or Gun (gŭn); 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. gīnan to yawn, and E. yawn. √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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   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.
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   Gin , n. [A contraction of engine.]
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   Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
   Chaucer. Spenser.
   
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   (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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   A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
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   ☞ 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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   Gin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ginned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.]
   To catch in a trap. [Obs.]
   Beau. & Fl.
   
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   To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
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