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Substantiivit

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. (Australia, now considered offensive) An Aboriginal woman.
3. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
4. (uncountable) gin rummy
5. (obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
6. A snare or trap for game.
7. (poker) drawing the best card or combination of cards
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.

Verbit

1. (archaic) To begin.
2. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
3. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
4. To invent (via Irish), see gin up