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Substantiivi

1. (Australia, now considered offensive, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal woman.
2. 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.
3. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
4. (obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
5. (uncountable) Gin rummy.
6. (poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
7. A snare or trap for game.
8. 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.
9. (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
10. A pile driver.
11. A windpump.
12. A cotton gin.
13. An instrument of torture worked with screws.

Konjunktio

1. (chiefly Scotland, Northern England, Southern US, Appalachia) If.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
2. (archaic, Early Modern) To begin.
3. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.