Dictionary Entry
gin
gin is a 3-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, conjunction, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
- 2conjunction
If.
- 3intransitive verb
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
- 6noun
A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
- 7noun
A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
- 8noun
A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
- 9transitive verb
To catch in a trap.
- 10transitive verb
To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
- 11noun
a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
- 12noun
a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
- 13noun
a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
- 14noun
strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
- 15verb
trap with a snare
"gin game"
- 16verb
separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
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