gin
noun
[ dʒɪn ]
• a clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries.
• a form of the card game rummy in which a player holding cards totalling ten or less may terminate play.
Origin:
early 18th century: abbreviation of genever.
gin
noun
• a machine for separating cotton from its seeds.
• a machine for raising and moving heavy weights.
• a trap for catching birds or small mammals.
gin
verb
• treat (cotton) in a gin.
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘a tool or device, a trick’): from Old French engin (see engine).
gin
noun
• an Aboriginal woman.
Origin:
from Dharuk diyin ‘woman, wife’.
