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gin

(g/I/n )

strong liquor flavored with juniper berries(noun.food)

source: wordnet30
a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose(noun.artifact)

Synonym:
noose, snare

source: wordnet30
a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers(noun.artifact)

Synonym:
cotton gin

source: wordnet30
a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points(noun.act)

Synonym:
gin rummy, knock rummy

source: wordnet30
A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.(noun)

source: webster1913
Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.(noun)

source: webster1913

separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin(verb.contact)

source: wordnet30
trap with a snare(verb.contact)

Example:
Gin game.

source: wordnet30
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.(verb)

source: webster1913
To catch in a trap.(verb)

source: webster1913

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