Gin

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

(noun.) strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.

(verb.) trap with a snare; 'gin game'.

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

迪莉娅编辑

• One of the most important of the early inventions in the textile art was the _cotton gin_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The cotton-gin probably had much to do with the justification of slavery. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He swore ominous oaths over the drugged beer of alehouses, and drank strange toasts in fiery British gin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She drank gin with her father, &c. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The great increase in demand for cotton produced by these machine inventions could not have been met had it not been for Eli Whitney's invention of the saw gin in America in 1793. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Yes, I am indeed, sir, wery poor in gin'ral, replies Jo. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The brushes then swept the cotton clear of the gin. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In 1812 Whitney applied for a renewal of his patent for the cotton-gin. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The following April he went back to Georgia, where he found unusually large crops of cotton had been planted, in expectation of using the gin. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The chief reason for this marvelous advance was the cotton-gin, for which Eli Whitney applied for a patent in 1793. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But money was very scarce, and the manufacture of the machines proved so costly that Whitney found it impossible to furnish as many gins as his partner wanted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• As there were not enough of his gins ready rivals were pushing their inferior machines. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The two men did everything in their power to hasten the building of their gins. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• When he got back to his factory in New Haven he found that fire had wiped out his workshop, together with all his gins and papers. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Lumber was taken from buildings, cotton gins and wherever found, for this purpose. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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