gin
/dʒɪn/
noun
- A clear, strong alcoholic drink flavored with juniper berries.
- She ordered a gin and tonic at the bar.
- He prefers gin over vodka because of its herbal taste.
- The cocktail recipe calls for two ounces of gin.
- A machine or trap, especially one used to separate cotton from its seeds or to catch animals.
- Farmers used a gin to remove seeds from the cotton fibers.
- The cotton gin revolutionized the textile industry in the 1800s.
- The old gin in the barn was still functional after all these years.
verb
- To remove seeds from cotton using a gin.
- The factory can gin hundreds of pounds of cotton per hour.
- They learned how to gin cotton during their visit to the historical farm.
- Workers would gin the cotton by hand before machines were invented.