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      gin
      noun
      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.
      (uncountable) Gin rummy.
      (poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
      A snare or trap for game.
      A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
      (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
      A pile driver.
      A windpump.
      A cotton gin.
      An instrument of torture worked with screws.
      (Australia, now considered offensive, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal woman.
      An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.
      (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
      (obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
      verb
      (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
      (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
      (archaic, Early Modern) To begin.
      Roots
      juniperusgin- · Latin · juniper (flavoring the spirit)
      Synonyms for gin
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