gin

noun13

1. •
   a clear drink with a lot of alcohol in it, given its sharp taste by juniper
2. •
   Gin rummy.
3. •
   A cotton gin.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   A snare or trap for game.

   • It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin. — 1895
6. •
   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.
7. •
   A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
8. •
   (Australia, offensive) An Aboriginal woman.

   • 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. — 1879
9. •
   A pile driver.
10. •
    A windpump.
11. •
    An instrument of torture worked with screws.
12. •
    (no longer used) A trick; a device or instrument.
13. •
    (no longer used) A 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, […] — 1503

verb2

1. •
   To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
2. •
   To trap something in a gin.

conjunction1

1. •
   (Scotland, Northern-England) If.

   • Gin the plough rests on the bank, / The loom, the nation, dies. — 1804

verb1

1. •
   (no longer used) To 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 :[…] — 1610

noun1

1. •
   An ethnic Vietnamese, in reference to those whose lands are in China.