gin

Speech parts

1. gin - Noun

2. gin - Verb

3. gin - Conjunction

Meaning

If.

Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.

To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.

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.

Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

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.

A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

To catch in a trap.

To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

snare cotton gin trap noose gin rummy knock rummy geneva lamia marc angora hollands cognac redfish twenty-one brandy
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Antonyms

concord support food repartee agreement resolution
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Hypernyms

separate machine trammel divide trap liquor

Hyponyms

geneva hollands sloe gin bathtub gin Holland gin

Phrases with the word

pitfall and gin gin shop gin drinker homemade gin another gin sloe gin tizz

Derivatives

gan gon gun ginning ginned

Examples

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Roy Blount

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

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. C. S. Forester

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. Gwendolyn Brooks

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. Rudyard Kipling

Transliteration: Pheuuan gin haa ngaay pheuuan dtaay haa yaak. Thai Proverb

Close letter words and terms

GIMPS gimpy gimsilumab gin and French gin and it gin and tonic