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.

Equivalents

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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