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单词 gin
释义

gin1/jin/ noun

a spirit made by distilling grain flavoured with juniper berries

‘But it can't have been right … to pour spirits down her throat like that. It might have killed her.’ ‘Not her. Gin was mother's milk to her.’ — George Bernard Shaw

a glass or measure of gin

[by shortening and alteration from geneva, modification of obsolete Dutch genever juniper, ultimately from Latin juniperus]

gin2noun

= cotton gin

a machine for raising or moving heavy weights

a snare or trap for game

[Middle English gin, modification of Old French engin: see engine]

gin3verb trans (ginned, ginning)

to separate (cotton fibre) from seeds and waste material

to snare (game) in a gin

ginner noun

gin4noun

Aus, derog a female Aborigine

[from Dharuk]
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