gins
noun
- 1
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.”
noun
- 1
A trick; a device or instrument.
- 2
Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
- 3
A snare or trap for game.
- 4
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 whim.
- 6
A pile driver.
- 7
A windpump.
- 8
A cotton gin.
- 9
An instrument of torture worked with screws.
verb
- 1
To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
- 2
To trap something in a gin.
verb
- 1
To begin.
noun
- 1
An Aboriginal woman.
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