cotton gin

Noun

Meaning

a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

gin snare noose cotton mill ginning plant ginning plants ginning undertakings old gin

Hypernyms

machine

Examples

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. Alice Walker

Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today. Source: Internet

Although Whitney patented his own design for a cotton gin, he manufactured a prior design from Henry Odgen Holmes, for which Holmes filed a patent in 1796. Source: Internet

Although simple handheld roller gins have been used in India and other countries since at oldest 500 AD, the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794. Source: Internet

A single cotton gin could generate up to convert of cleaned cotton daily. Source: Internet

Because the cotton gin had not brought Whitney the rewards he believed he would get, he accepted the contract. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cotton filaments cotton flannel cotton fleahopper cotton grass cotton growing cotton lavender