Gin

A trap. (1.) Ps. 140:5, 141:9, Amos 3:5, the Hebrew word used, mokesh, means a noose or “snare,” as it is elsewhere rendered (Ps. 18:5; Prov. 13:14, etc.). (2.) Job 18:9, Isa. 8:14, Heb. pah, a plate or thin layer; and hence a net, a snare, trap, especially of a fowler (Ps. 69: 22, “Let their table before them become a net;” Amos 3:5, “Doth a bird fall into a net [pah] upon the ground where there is no trap-stick [mokesh] for her? doth the net [pah] spring up from the ground and take nothing at all?”, Gesenius.)

a trap for birds or beasts; it consisted of a net, (Isaiah 8:14) and a stick to act as a spring. (Amos 3:5)

GIN, a trap for beasts or birds, consisting of a net ("snare," Isa 8:14), and a stick to act as a spring ("gin," Am 3:5). See Hunting.

GIN, a trap for beasts or birds, consisting of a net ("snare," Isa 8:14), and a stick to act as a spring ("gin," Am 3:5). See Hunting.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. Chaucer. Spenser.

2. 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.

3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan. [Obs. or Archaic] "He gan to pray." Chaucer.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To catch in a trap. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

Part of speech: preposition (prep.)

Against; near by; towards; as, gin night. [Scot.] A. Ross (1778).

Part of speech: conjunction (conj.)

If. [Scotch] Jamieson.