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- English Word Gimcrack Definition A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
- English Word Gimlet Definition A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
- English Word Gimlet Definition To pierce or make with a gimlet.
- English Word Gimlet Definition To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
- English Word Gimleted Definition of Gimlet
- English Word Gimleting Definition of Gimlet
- English Word Gimmal Definition Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
- English Word Gimmal Definition A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer.
- English Word Gimmer Definition Alt. of Gimmor
- English Word Gimmor Definition A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.
- English Word Gimp Definition Smart; spruce; trim; nice.
- English Word Gimp Definition A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
- English Word Gimp Definition To notch; to indent; to jag.
- English Word Gin Definition Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
- English Word Gin Definition If.
- English Word Gin Definition To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
- English Word Gin Definition 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.
- English Word Gin Definition Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
- English Word Gin Definition 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.
- English Word Gin Definition A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
- English Word Gin Definition A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
- English Word Gin Definition To catch in a trap.
- English Word Gin Definition To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
- English Word Ging Definition Same as Gang, n., 2.
- English Word Gingal Definition See Jingal.
- English Word Ginger Definition A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.
- English Word Ginger Definition The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.
- English Word Gingerbread Definition A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
- English Word Gingerly Definition Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
- English Word Gingerness Definition Cautiousness; tenderness.