Definition of gins Gins
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Wiktionary 
- gins (Noun)
Plural of gin.
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| gin - strong liquor flavored with juniper berries | ||
| booze, hard drink, hard liquor, john barleycorn, spirits, strong drink, liquor the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked | ||
| gin and tonic gin and quinine water | ||
| martini a cocktail made of gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth | ||
| gin and it a cocktail made of gin and sweet vermouth | ||
| pink lady a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice | ||
| juniper berries berrylike cone of a common juniper; used in making gin | ||
| bathtub gin homemade gin especially that made illegally | ||
| sloe gin gin flavored with sloes (fruit of the blackthorn) | ||
| gin - a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points | ||
| gin rummy, knock rummy | ||
| gin - a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | ||
| snare, noose | ||
| trap a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned | ||
| gin - a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers | ||
| cotton gin | ||
| machine any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks | ||
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| gin - trap with a snare; "gin game" | ||
| ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel, trap take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police" | ||
| hunting, hunt the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | ||
| gin - separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin | ||
| disunite, part, divide, separate perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?" | ||
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Wiktionary
- gin (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. - gin (Noun)
gin rummy . - gin (Noun)
Drawing the best card or combination of cards. - gin (Noun)
A trick; a device or instrument. - gin (Noun)
A snare or trap for game. - gin (Noun)
A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects. - gin (Noun)
A pile driver . - gin (Noun)
A windpump. - gin (Noun)
A cotton gin . - gin (Noun)
An Aboriginal woman. - gin (Verb)
To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin. - gin (Verb)
To trap something in a gin. - gin (Verb)
To invent via Irish, see gin up . - gin (Verb)
To begin.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- gin (n.)
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. - gin (conj.)
If. - gin (v. i.)
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. - gin (n.)
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. - gin (n.)
Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. - gin (n.)
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. - gin (n.)
A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim. - gin (n.)
A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin. - gin (v. t.)
To catch in a trap. - gin (v. t.)
To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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jin, n. Same as Geneva, of which it is a contraction.—ns. Gin′-fizz, a drink of gin, lemon-juice, effervescing water, &c.; Gin-pal′ace, Gin′-shop, a shop where gin is sold; Gin′-sling, a cold beverage of gin and water, sweetened and flavoured -
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jin, n. the name of a variety of machines, esp. one with pulleys for raising weights, &c.: a pump worked by rotary sails: (B.) a trap or snare.—v.t. to trap or snare: to clear cotton of its seeds by a machine:—pr.p. gin′ning; pa.p. ginned.—ns. Gin′-horse, a mill-horse; Gin′-house, a place where cotton is ginned. [Contr. from engine.] -
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gin, v.i. to begin.—n. Gin′ning, beginning -
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gin, a Scotch form of gif=if
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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A small iron cruciform frame, having a swivel-hook, furnished with an iron sheave, to serve as a pulley for the use of chain in discharging cargo and other purposes.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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In military mechanics, is a machine for raising great weights: it is composed of three long legs, one of them being longer than the rest, and called the pry-pole. The other two are kept at a proper distance by means of two iron bars fixed on one of the legs by a staple passing through a hole at one end; the other end has a hook which enters into a staple fixed into the other leg so as to be taken off or put on at pleasure. At about 3 feet from the bottom is a windlass, upon which the cable is wound; and the three legs are joined together at the top by an iron bolt, about which they move; to this bolt is also fixed an iron clevis to which is hooked the blocks and fall. When the gin stands upright with legs at a proper distance, one end of the cable is fastened to a gun, mortar, or other weight; and the other passes through the pulleys and about the roller, which is turned round by means of hand-spikes passing through the holes in the end of the roller; whilst a man holds the cable tight, the gun is raised to the height required, so that the carriage may be put under it. The modern gin has a windlass with pawl and ratchet attachments. There are three different kinds of gins,--the field and siege, the garrison, and the casemate gins; and they only differ in their size and weight.
Wikipedia 
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Gin is a type of alcoholic drink with a high amount of alcohol in it, usually about 35-50% alcohol by volume. It was invented in the Netherlands in the 17th century, and soon became very popular in England. This became a problem when many people drank themselves to death, because gin was cheap to make and had a so much alcohol.
Gin is flavored with juniper berries. Today, gin is usually a dry liquor, which means that it is not very sweet. Gin is also very popular in cocktails - two of the most common of these are the Gin & Tonic (gin mixed with tonic water) and the martini (gin mixed with vermouth, usually with an olive added). Gin is still one of the most popular liquors to this day.
