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gin

noun
/d͡ʒɪn//ɡɪn/

Etymology

Partly from Middle English gin, ginne (“cleverness, scheme, talent, device, machine”), from Old French gin, an aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”); and partly from Middle English grin, grine (“snare, trick, stratagem, deceit, temptation, noose, halter, instrument”), from Old English grin, gryn, giren (“snare, gin, noose”).

  1. derived from grin
  2. derived from grin
  3. derived from engin — “engine”
  4. derived from gin
  5. inherited from gin

Definitions

  1. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as…

    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.

  2. Gin rummy.

  3. Drawing 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. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. A trick

      A trick; a device or instrument.

    2. A scheme

      A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.

      • The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […]
      • treason and deceiptfull gin

    3. A snare or trap for game.

      • It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin.

    4. A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles…

      A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

    5. A hoisting drum, usually vertical

      A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

    6. A pile driver.

    7. A windpump.

    8. A cotton gin.

    9. An instrument of torture worked with screws.

    10. To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

    11. To trap something in a gin.

    12. To begin.

      • Gon. All three of them are deſperate : their great guilt / (Like poyſon giuen to worke a great time after) / Now gins to bite the ſpirits :[…]

    13. An Aboriginal woman.

      • His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.
      • On December 28, in the same year [1828], he [John Allen] fought single handed a tribe of native blacks, numbering from thirteen to eighteen, besides "gins" to bring them spears, waddies, etc.

    14. If.

      • […]for pronouncing according as one would ſay at London I would eat more cheeſe if I had it, the Northern man ſaith, Ay ſuld eat mare cheeſe gin ay hadet, and the Weſterne man ſaith Chud eat more cheeſe an chad it.
      • Gin the plough rests on the bank, / The loom, the nation, dies.
      • An' gin I'm weel and can keep sober / You may look for it in October.

    15. An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.

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Derived

bathtub gin, Dutch gin, gin and French, Gin and Gospel Gazette, gin and Italian, gin and it, gin-and-It, gin and tonic, gin tonic, gin berry, gin blossom, gin bottle, gin bucket, gin-clear, gin fizz, ginhouse, gin joint, ginless, ginlike, gin mill, ginny, gin palace, gin pennant, ginshop, ginsoaked, gin spinner, gintini, macaroni gin, pink gin, Ramos gin fizz, sloe gin, square gin, tonic and gin, gin block, gin pole, ginwright, pitfall and gin, roller gin, saw gin, whip gin · +1 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA