Gin (Verb)
Meaning 1
Trap with a snare; "gin game".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The rabbit was gin'd by the hunter's trap and could not escape.
- The notorious thief was known to gin his targets with fake lotteries before stealing their valuables.
- The hunter's strategy was to gin the unsuspecting deer with the bait laid out in front of the trap.
- The trap set by the animal control was intended to gin the raccoon without harming it.
- In the classic play "The Gin Game," the elderly characters engage in a series of mind games instead of the actual card game.
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Meaning 2
Separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The machine was designed to gin the cotton more efficiently, increasing production and reducing labor costs.
- The new cotton gin was able to gin the cotton more effectively than the old one, resulting in higher profits for the farm.
- Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin to make it easier to gin the seeds from the cotton fibers.
- Farmers rely heavily on the cotton gin to gin the seeds from the harvested cotton before processing.
- The cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry by making it possible to easily gin the seeds from the fibers.