Meaning of Gin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Aboriginal woman.
   Australia, ethnic, slur
2. An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable
4. A trick; a device or instrument.
   obsolete
5. Gin rummy.
   uncountable
6. A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
   obsolete
7. Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
   countable, uncountable
8. A snare or trap for game.
9. 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.
10. A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
11. A pile driver.
12. A windpump.
13. A cotton gin.
14. An instrument of torture worked with screws.

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Examples

“Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board⟳ was dealt out.”

“The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come⟳ in, […]”

“treason and deceiptfull gin”

“It was the cry⟳ of a rabbit caught in a gin.”

“His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay⟳, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.”

“On December 28, in the same year [1828], he [John Allen] fought single handed a tribe of native blacks, numbering from thirteen to eighteen, besides "gins" to bring⟳ them spears, waddies, etc.”

“1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form⟳ in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt From my position I could see⟳ the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush⟳ for the entrance.”

“How they must have⟳ laughed about the strutting of her whose mother was a wanton and aunt a gin!”

“Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost⟳ them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.”

“But there was this gin there, see⟳, what they called a kitchen girl.”

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