Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A snare for the feet.
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Examples
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That done, place the foot-gin deep enough to be just even with the surface of the soil,294 and round the circle of the crown the cord-noose.
On Hunting 2007
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But the foot-gin appeared on the scene, and indigo went down before cotton.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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For the same reason power-gins and saw-mills found little favor, the single-treadle "foot-gin" and the saw-pit and cross-cut employing ten times as many hands.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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Page 35 used the sickle, the men threshed the rice and trod the cotton foot-gin, while to the women was assigned the easier task of sorting the lint of its specks and leaves.
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That done, place the foot-gin deep enough to be just even with the surface of the soil, (28) and round the circle of the crown the cord-noose.
The Sportsman 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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