The name is also given to an instrument of torture worked with screws,
and to a pump moved by rotary sails.
Gin block, a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel, over which
a rope runs; -- called also whip gin, rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel.
-- Gin power, a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin. -- Gin
race, or Gin ring, the path of the horse when putting a gin in motion.
Halliwell. -- Gin saw, a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the
fibers through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper. -- Gin wheel.
(a) In a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fiber through the grid; a
brush wheel to clean away the lint. (b) (Mining) the drum of a whim.
Gin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ginned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ginning.] 1. To
catch in a trap. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.