gins

noun

Meaning

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.
Gin rummy.
Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
A trick; a device or instrument.
Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
A snare or trap for game.
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.
A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
A pile driver.
To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
To trap something in a gin.
To begin.
An Aboriginal woman.

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