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4 definitions • 6 examples
1
a
clear
,
strong
alcoholic
drink
flavoured with
juniper
berries
(=
small
fruits
):
Examples:
a
bottle
of gin
a gin and
tonic
2
a
machine
for
separating
cotton
fibres from their
seeds
:
Examples:
Record
cotton
hauls
have
strained
gins
across
the
southern
High
Plains
.
Georgia
employs
nearly
50,000
cotton
farmers
, gin
operators
,
truckers
, warehousemen and
brokers
.
3
to use a
special
machine
to
separate
cotton
fibres from their
seeds
:
Examples:
The
company
has gone from ginning 5,000 bales of
cotton
per year in the
early
1990s to about 32,000 bales last year.
Commercial
companies
then
processed
and exported ginned
cotton
to
markets
abroad
.
4
a
type
of colorless,
strong
alcoholic
drink
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