noun

• (uncountable) Gin rummy.
• (poker) 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."

noun

• (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
• (obsolete) 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, […]"
• (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

verb

• (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
• (transitive) To trap something in a gin.

verb

• (archaic, Early Modern) To begin.
  "Gon. All three of them are deſperate : their great guilt / (Like poyſon giuen to worke a great time after) / Now gins to bite the ſpirits :[…]"