Available Definitions:
1) v. - Began; commenced.
2) conj. - If.
3) v. i. - To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan .
4) n. - 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.
5) n. - Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
6) n. - 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.
7) n. - A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
8) n. - A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
9) v. t. - To catch in a trap.
10) v. t. - To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.