Found 4 items, similar to gin.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: gin arak, gin, jenewer, keran, perangkap, sopi
Indonesian → English (quick) Definition: gin gin
English → English (WordNet) Definition: gin gin n 1: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries 2: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose [syn: snare, noose] 3: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers [syn: cotton gin] 4: a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points [syn: gin rummy , knock rummy] [also: ginning, ginned, gan] gin v 1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin 2: trap with a snare; “gin game” [also: ginning, ginned, gan]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Gin Gin \Gin\, prep. [AS. ge['a]n. See Again.] Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] --A. Ross (1778). [1913 Webster] Gin \Gin\, conj. [See Gin, prep.] If. [Scotch] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster] Gin \Gin\ (g[i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gan (g[a^]n), Gon (g[o^]n), or Gun (g[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] [OE. ginnen, AS. ginnan (in comp.), prob. orig., to open, cut open, cf. OHG. inginnan to begin, open, cut open, and prob. akin to AS. g[=i]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [root]31. See Yawn, v. i., and cf. Begin.] To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] “He gan to pray.” --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Gin \Gin\ (j[i^]n), n. [Contr. from Geneva. See 2d Geneva.] A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine. [1913 Webster] Gin \Gin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ginned; p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] 1. To catch in a trap. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton. [1913 Webster] Gin \Gin\, n. [A contraction of engine.] [1913 Webster] 1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. --Chaucer. Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. (a) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc. (b) (Mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim. [1913 Webster] 3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin. [1913 Webster] Note: The name is also given to an instrument of torture worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary sails. [1913 Webster] Gin block, a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel, over which a rope runs; -- called also whip gin, rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel. Gin power, a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin. Gin race, or Gin ring, the path of the horse when putting a gin in motion. --Halliwell. Gin saw, a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibers through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper. Gin wheel. (a) In a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fiber through the grid; a brush wheel to clean away the lint. (b) (Mining) the drum of a whim. [1913 Webster]