gin
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9.6
- noun
- /dʒɪn/
- Specialized
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- In 1793—the year Eli Whitney invented the saw cotton gin—the U.S. exported 487,600 pounds of cotton.
- cotton gin
- introduction of the gin
- gin trash
The cotton gin made the American slave system actively so much fucking worse.
- The cotton gin made the American slave system actively so much fucking worse.
Examples
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The cotton gin might be history's best example of that.
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Following Whitney's innovation, a major industry developed to manufacture gins and was well underway by the 1840s.
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I got it caught in a cotton gin when I was 12 years old.
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The two pulled into the cotton gin and went inside.
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Brought more business to town than anything since the cotton gin.
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Now that's the way to build a cotton gin.
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In 1793, the cotton gin was invented.
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Production increased by a staggering amount with the introduction of the cotton gin.
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My buddy, Andy Beamis runs a cotton gin up on Chulahoma.
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The cotton gin is an essential machine for the processing of raw cotton fibers.
Synonyms
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A machine that separates seeds from cotton fibers
Compounds
- US
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3.4
A card game where players make sets and runs and end when leftover cards total under ten points
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8.2
A sweet red alcoholic drink made by soaking small dark fruits from the blackthorn bush in gin
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gin for the cotton machine is a short form of the word engine ('machine'), so a cotton gin is simply the machine that separates seeds from cotton.