GINS

Definition

1. 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.
2. Gin rummy.
3. Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
   “Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.”

1. A trick; a device or instrument.
2. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
3. A snare or trap for game.
4. 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.
5. A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

1. To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
2. To trap something in a gin.

1. To begin.

1. An Aboriginal woman.

Source: Wiktionary

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