Ginnoun

• 1

  An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.

ginnoun詞源 1/d͡ʒɪn/

• 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

  Gin rummy.

• 3

  card-gamespokerDrawing the best card or combination of cards.

  • Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.

ginnoun詞源 2/d͡ʒɪn/

• 1

  obsoleteA trick; a device or instrument.

• 2

  obsoleteA scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.

  • The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […]
  • treason and deceiptfull gin
• 3

  A snare or trap for game.

  • It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin.
• 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

  businessminingA hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

• 6

  A pile driver.

• 7

  A windpump.

• 8

  A cotton gin.

ginverb詞源 2/d͡ʒɪn/

• 1

  To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

• 2

  To trap something in a gin.

ginverb詞源 3/ɡɪn/

• 1

  archaicTo begin.

  • Gon. All three of them are deſperate : their great guilt / (Like poyſon giuen to worke a great time after) / Now gins to bite the ſpirits :[…]

ginnoun詞源 4/d͡ʒɪn/

• 1

  slurAn Aboriginal woman.

  • His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.
  • On December 28, in the same year [1828], he [John Allen] fought single handed a tribe of native blacks, numbering from thirteen to eighteen, besides "gins" to bring them spears, waddies, etc.

ginconj詞源 5/ɡɪn/

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  If.

  • […]for pronouncing according as one would ſay at London I would eat more cheeſe if I had it, the Northern man ſaith, Ay ſuld eat mare cheeſe gin ay hadet, and the Weſterne man ſaith Chud eat more cheeſe an chad it.
  • Gin the plough rests on the bank, / The loom, the nation, dies.