gin

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A strong colorless alcoholic beverage made by distilling or redistilling rye or other grain spirits and adding juniper berries or aromatics such as anise, caraway seeds, or angelica root as flavoring.
2. n. Any of several machines or devices, especially:
3. n. A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.
4. n. A pile driver.
5. n. A snare or trap for game.
6. n. A pump operated by a windmill.
7. n. A cotton gin.
8. v. To remove the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin.
9. v. To trap in a gin.
10. n. Gin rummy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To begin (which see).
2. [In Middle English the preterit of this verb (gan, gon, can, con, etc.) was much used with a following infinitive, with or without to, as having, besides its regular inceptive meaning ‘began to,’ a merely preterit force, being equivalent to the simple preterit of the second verb: as, he gan go, equivalent to he did go or he went. This auxiliary was supplanted in the fifteenth century by did, though its use, as an archaism, continued much later.
3. Against (a certain time); by: as, I′ ll be there gin five o′ clock.
4. If; suppose.
5. n. I. Contrivance; crafty means; artifice.
6. n. A mechanical contrivance; a machine; an engine. Specifically — An engine of war.
7. n. An engine of torture.
8. n. A machine used instead of a crane, consisting essentially of three poles from 12 to 15 feet in length, often tapering from the lower extremity to the top, and united at their upper extremities, whence a block and tackle is suspended, the lower extremities being planted in the ground about 8 or 9 feet asunder, and having a windlass attached to two of them.
9. n. In coal-mining, the machinery for raising ore or coal from a mine by horse-power. [Eng.] Generally called whim or whim-gin in the United States.
10. n. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton, hence called a cotton-gin. See cut undercotton-gin.
11. n. A machine for driving piles.
12. n. A pump moved by rotary sails.
13. n. A trap; a snare; a springe.
14. To catch in a trap.
15. To clear (cotton) of seeds by means of the cotton-gin.
16. n. An aromatic spirit prepared from rye or other grain and flavored with juniper-berries. The two important varieties of gin are Dutch gin, also called Holland and Schiedam, and English gin, known often by the name Old Tom. Holland gin is almost free from sweetness, and is generally purer than English. Pure gin is an important medicament in many diseases, especially in those of the urinary organs.
17. n. A contraction of given.
18. n. An Australian native woman; an old woman generally.

Wiktionary

1. n. Australia An Aboriginal woman.
2. n. 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.
3. n. uncountable gin rummy
4. n. poker drawing the best card or combination of cards
5. n. obsolete A trick; a device or instrument.
6. n. A snare or trap for game.
7. n. A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.
8. n. A pile driver.
9. n. A windpump.
10. n. A cotton gin.
11. v. transitive To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
12. v. transitive To trap something in a gin.
13. v. To invent (via Irish), see gin up
14. v. archaic To begin.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. prep. Scot. Against; near by; towards.
2. conj. Scotch If.
3. v. Obs. or Archaic To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to. See gan.
4. 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.
5. n. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
6. 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.
7. n. (Mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
8. n. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
9. v. obsolete To catch in a trap.
10. v. To clear of seeds by a machine.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. trap with a snare
2. n. a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
3. n. a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
4. n. strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
5. v. separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
6. n. a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose