In '93 Mr. Whitney invented the Cotton-gin now in use, by which the labor of at least one thousand hands under the old system, is performed by one, in preparing the crop for market.

It was a large shed built upon square timbers, and was similar to a barn, only it stood some six feet from the ground, and underneath was located the machinery for running the gin.

She knew the warriors would drink the gin right away.

There have, as far as I have understood, been no endeavors to introduce any cotton-gins from our country.

He finished his gin and water slowly.

Before he reached the second gin, the excitement in him quickened.

He has just poured out some gin to those sailors, and is drinking with them.

They brought gin and a new lecherousness and deadly ills and novel superstitions, and found a people ready for their wares.

See how ye'll fare gin the New Year tide!

Say, that feller up in that room gin eight dollars for that cord o' wood, an' it ain't good for nothin'.

Papa fired a steam gin.

"Have dee got me 'gin?

But the new owner changed all this, hiding gins and spring-guns in the coverts, and nailing up boards on the trees to say he would have the law of any that trespassed.

The master held in his hand a rusty old gin, the iron jaws of which were tightly closed upon the body of an enormous rat.

You will spend your days forgetting you married me and your nights hunting the warm gin Mike serves the ladies in the rear of the Last Chance Saloon.

"In the case of a man killing his own gin [wife], he has to deliver up one of his own sisters for his late wife's friends to put to death" (W.E. Roth, 141).

In a tavern of foul repute three men were lapping gin.

But as the night wore on the three friends left their gin and stole away, and crept down to that graveyard where rested in his sepulchre Paul, Archbishop of Alois and Vayence.

"Sure as a nigger likes gin," replied Norton, confidently.

"Do you love gin?

M.B. Hammond, The Cotton Industry, pp. 25, 26.] Miller, who now married Mrs. Greene, promptly entered into partnership with Whitney not only to manufacture gins but also to monopolize the business of operating them, charging one-third of the cotton as toll.

Oh! to tell a lot of lies, You know, it is a sin, But I’ll go up country And marry a black gin.

The smallness of their number, and their want of arms, quite elevated the courage of Miago, who loudly vaunted his intention of monopolizing a northern gin, in order to astonish his friends upon our return to the south: stealing away the ladies being, as I have before remarked, the crowning and most honourable achievement of which man, in the eyes of these savages, is capable.

And first, a wildly murmuring wind 'gan creep Shrill to his ringing ear; then tapers bright, With instantaneous gleam, illumed the vault of night.

At the front of the house were a stair and a platform for unloading seed cotton from the wagons; inside there were bins for storage, as well as a space for operating the gin; and in the rear a lean-to room extending to the ground level received the flying lint and let it settle on the floor.