Since the thirteenth century, gin has been used as a name for various tools or mechanical devices, such as a snare for game or a machine for raising and moving heavy weights, and it was natural to call the machine that separates seeds, hull and foreign material from cotton a cotton gin . That sort of gin gave birth to plenty of other gins , too, such as the gin block, gin pole, gin saw and gin trap .
Gin is a verb, too.
Operating a cotton gin is called ginning , as is snaring something in a gin trap . Gin also has three dialect meanings. We welcome your correspondence.