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ginning

ginning

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Removing seeds from cotton using a machine
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒɪnɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : desmotado
  • BioFuelsDigest likens the ginning, logically, to the cotton gin—a method that combs the algae out of the water.
  • cotton ginning

Examples

  • In addition, other Chinese businessmen leased land and imported field workers by borrowing venture capital from associates, especially from American cotton-ginning companies.

    Academic text (1995)

  • For ginning, it's customary to charge $5 on the ton.

    Places in the Heart (1984)

  • The next stage is the proprietary ginning.

    Blog text (21)

  • On an individual plant basis, two hand pickings were made during the month of November, and ginning was done with eight saw gins. Traits measurement

    Academic text (2015)

  • A couple of hundred workers from the Nile Cotton Ginning Co. gathered outside the People's Assembly in downtown Cairo today, protesting cuts in their salaries that started in November last year and were followed by new cuts last month.

    Blog text (5)

  • The ginning process removes seeds from the cotton in a more efficient manner than manual labor.

  • During ginning, machines separate the fluffy cotton from the seeds, making it ready for market.

  • Farmers rely on ginning to increase their cotton yield by quickly processing the raw bolls into clean fiber.

Surface Forms

ginning singular
ginnings plural

Morphology

ginning = gin (transparent) = gin + ing

A regular verbal -ing form from 'to gin' (remove seeds from cotton), referring to the process of ginning cotton.

Etymology

Ginning in cotton comes from the same gin, short for engine, which was the name for a 'machine' that removes seeds from cotton. So, ginning is the process of cleaning cotton by taking out its seeds.