to gin
- verb
- /dʒɪn/
- Specialized
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desmotar
- Every autumn, our family gin the cotton we harvest to prepare it for sale at the market.
Examples
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In 1942, the federal government appropriated $200,000 to build a milkweed-processing factory in Michigan to machine dry the pods and gin the floss from the seeds.
Academic text (1991) -
At the cotton processing facility, workers carefully gin the harvested cotton to separate the fluffy fibers from the seeds.
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And he I know that in order to gin up his base that he has to say it's going on right now before the November.
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I was told that you sometimes gin the cotton for the seed.
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I gin the cotton and keep the seed.
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I gin the cotton for a fee, then I buy your cotton if we agree on a price.
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But since more gin machines are used and more material must be processed, it costs more to gin UNR cotton, and the fiber suffers more damage—mainly in the form of increased neps and shorter fibers.
Academic text (2000) -
Farmers often choose to gin their cotton locally to ensure a better price for the processed fiber.
Synonyms
10
3.5
To remove seeds from fruit or vegetables
Compounds
- US
5
3.4
A card game where players make sets and runs and end when leftover cards total under ten points
1
8.2
A sweet red alcoholic drink made by soaking small dark fruits from the blackthorn bush in gin
Surface Forms
Etymology
To gin cotton means to run it through a cotton gin, and this verb comes from the machine name, which is a short form of engine ('machine').