gin

A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.

Gin rummy.

Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.

A trick; a device or instrument.

A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.

The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […]

treason and deceiptfull gin

A snare or trap for game.

It was the cry of a rabbit caught in a gin.

A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

To trap something in a gin.