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ginner en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Classical Latin iūniperus Vulgar Latin ziniperus Old French genevreder. Middle Dutch jenever Dutch jeneverder. English genevaclip. English gin English -er English ginner From gin + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who operates a cotton gin.
   • Cotton cloth was currency in Mongol China; in such a market, a gin that could be operated by one ginner replaced the productive but labor-intensive two-person model. 2005, Angela Lakwete, Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America:
2. A cotton ginning plant.

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