DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan

 Gin n.
 1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
 2. (a) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc. (b) Mining A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
 3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
 Note: ☞ The name is also given to an instrument of torture worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary sails.
 Gin block, a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel, over which a rope runs; -- called also whip gin, rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel.
 Gin power, a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin.
 Gin race, or Gin ring, the path of the horse when putting a gin in motion. --Halliwell.
 Gin saw, a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibers through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper.
 Gin wheel. (a) In a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fiber through the grid; a brush wheel to clean away the lint. (b) Mining the drum of a whim.