Definition of "gin" in Anglais

noun

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. (uncountable) Gin rummy.

3. (poker) 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.

noun

1. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.

2. (obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or 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. (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

6. A pile driver.

7. A windpump.

8. A cotton gin.

9. An instrument of torture worked with screws.

verb

1. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

2. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.

verb

1. (archaic, Early Modern) To begin.

noun

1. (Australia, now considered offensive, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal woman.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt From my position I could see the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush for the entrance.

conjunction

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