gin

Significat (anglès)

Noun

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. Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

Verb

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

Verb

To begin.

Conj

If.

Sinònims

snare

trap

🪤

noose

cotton gin

palm wine

ensnare

gin rummy

spirits

capstan

knock rummy

entrap

arrack

pick off

pile driver

pile hammer

pit

purchase

🛍️

reel

shell

🐚

shuck

sloe

spin

springe

toil

trammel

vodka

whim

whiskies

jin

rice wine

distilled spirits

rums

stake driver

monkey-engine

pile engine

ram engine

pile-driving machine

staking machine

shear-leg crane

pile driving machine

pole press

pile driving engine

pile-hammer

hammer-apparatus

arak

cable stock

brandies

brandy

card

catch

cognac

crab

🦀

dry

fluff

loop

➿

mantrap

picker

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/d͡ʒɪn/

Etimologia (anglès)

Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).