roller ginn.
/ˈrəʊlə ˌdʒɪn/, U.S. /ˈroʊlər ˌdʒɪn/ Manufacturing Technology.
A cotton gin in which the removal of the cotton seeds is effected by a roller or rollers.Early forms of roller gins used two rollers rotating in opposite directions. Modern ones use a single roller against which a knife blade is pressed.
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1803 A. F. M. Willich & J. Mease Domest. Encycl. (Amer. ed.) II. 244/2 Another kind of gin has indeed been invented..for ginning the green seed or upland cotton, which will not pass through the common roller gin.
1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. iii**/2 The machine now almost universally used..is the saw-gin, the roller-gin having been supplanted even in India.
1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xviii. 510 Since the roller gin is so generally used in India clean picking is essential.
1969 Times 24 July p. xx/2 All the gins installed in the U.A.R. factories are of the roller gin type.
2009 Southwest Farm Press (U.S.) (Nexis) 12 Mar. 1 Skov serves as president of the Valley Gin, one of the few remaining roller gins in Texas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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