(jin) noun
An aromatic alcoholic liquor, distilled from various grains and flavored with juniper berries; also, such a liquor with other flavoring. [Short for GENEVA]

(gin) v.t. & v.i. gan, gin·ning Archaic & Poetic
To begin.

(jin) noun
1. A machine for separating cotton fibers from the seeds.
2. A portable hoisting machine.
3. A pump worked by a windmill.
4. A pile driver.
5. A snare or trap.
6. Obs. Artifice of any sort.
—v.t. ginned, gin·ning
1. To catch in or as in a gin or trap.
2. To remove the seeds from (cotton) in a gin. [Aphetic var. of OF engin ingenuity. See ENGINE.]

(gin) prep. Scot.
By; against (a certain) time.
—conj. If; whether.

(jin) noun Austral.
An adult aboriginal female. [<native Australian]