Word Finder - gin

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A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.

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Gin rummy.

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Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

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Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.

The emergency network had not been utilized, which meant that by morning one of the high-ranking men hiding underground would be on the phone to General Greene to complain about the lack of gin.

There are manufactures of boots and shoes, straw and leather goods, carpets, &c. Westboro was the birthplace of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin.

There was a glass on an end table next to a half full bottle of gin.

You know tonight I had to prevent the VP's commo guy from using the emergency network to order gin?

The imports are chiefly textiles, metals and hardware, and gin.

Schiedam is famous as the seat of a great gin manufacture, which, carried on in more than three hundred distilleries, gives employment besides to malt-factories, cooperages and cork-cutting establishments, and supplies grain refuse enough to feed about 30,000 pigs, as well as sufficient yeast to form an important article of export.

Near Augusta, on the site now occupied by the Eli Whitney Country Club, Eli Whitney is said to have first set up and operated his cotton gin; he is commemorated by a mural tablet in the court house.

Other branches of industry include carpet-weaving at Deventer, the distillation of brandy, gin and liqueurs at Schiedam, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and beer-brewing in most of the principal towns; shoe-making and leather-tanning in the Langstraat district of North Brabant; paper-making at Apeldoorn, on the Zaan, and in Limburg; the manufacture of earthenware and faience at Maastricht, the Hague and Delft, as well as at Utrecht, Purmerend and Makkum; clay pipes and stearine candles at Gouda; margarine at Osch; chocolate at Weesp and on the Zaan; mat-plaiting and broom-making at Genemuiden and Blokzyl; diamondcutting and the manufacture of quinine at Amsterdam; and the making of cigars and snuff at Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Kampen, &c. Shipbuilding is of no small importance in Holland, not only in the greater, but also in the smaller towns along the rivers and canals.

The sheaths (Chamaerops), showing the veins ending in a process 1, called running from the base to the mara ligule; the blade of the gin, and not forming an angular leaf, f.

The principal imports are cotton goods (nearly all from the United Kingdom), and in the southern region spirits - gin and geneva - almost wholly from Holland and Germany, salt, rice and other provisions, tobacco, hardware, cutlery and building material, &c., mostly from the United Kingdom.

Gin, L'Electricien, 1903, 2 5, p. 5); and by the electrolysis of vanadium trioxide when heated in an evacuated glass tube (W.

Wilson developed the sewing machine; that Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanising rubber; that Samuel Colt began the manufacture of the Colt fire-arms; and it was from near New Haven that Eli Whitney went to Georgia where he invented the cotton gin.

Otherwise, he'd be crying in my gin instead of her beer.

Thay maun laund on the mukkil Craig an see gin thay coud finnd a wey inti the keep.

The clarity of the water would have made any gin distiller jealous.

The company also operates the last independent gin distillery in the United Kingdom.

Gin Shops The 18th century saw a huge growth in the number of drinking establishments, primarily due to the introduction of gin.

Would Hamlet be more relevant if he was wearing jeans and sipping a gin and tonic at a cocktail party?

A bitter fruit can be used in mixed hedgerow jams, or to flavor gin.

I drink gin in pubs with no Real Ale or decent wine.

Clark bought not just for Britain but also for the colonies the Canadians in particular enjoyed the taste of Dutch gin.

Luckily the motel manager was with me, and he ' gently ' explained what a pink gin was.

I'll get the sloe gin started once I've been to Tesco later today.

She was a large lazy woman, fond of sniffing ground tobacco called snuff and drinking gin.

Bombay Sapphire, the premium gin in the translucent blue glass bottle, is closely linked to design.

Here a ' secret ' passage led to a collapsed horse gin.

Search for Galliano cocktails Gin Essentially gin is distilled grain alcohol flavored with different herbs and spices known as botanicals.

Those who labored to construct the grotto were regularly rewarded with a glass of gin.

The Hen Wyfe wul no thenk me gin Ah bring hir hame a deid hen.

Gently warm the gin or brandy in a large ladle or small pan and ignite, pouring over pan juices and stirring gently.

Gin is fine as a mixer, vodka adds tasteless oomph, and tequila, for me, is a ' party ' drink.

Popular little gin palace, which has preserved its classic Victorian decor.

In many English colonies, gin was used with the bitter-tasting malaria drug quinine, to make the drug more palatable.

Also, the shop has added organic vodka, gin and spiced rum to its alcohol shelves.

Teen Patti - a kind of gin rummy - is played almost every evening in the ten days leading to Diwali.

Meanwhile Vidar was on the gin and alka seltzer - a strange mix that I can't see catching on.

The fruits are used in preserves and for making sloe gin.

The taste is very sour, but it has found a use in flavoring sloe gin, a very popular tipple among my friends.

The food was " excellent " and large tots of gin cost 4d (less than 2p) a glass.

Who wants to use low quality gasoline or drink poor whiskey, gin or vodka?

The city has two oil refineries, a large cottonj gin and a cotton compress, and among its manufactures are cotton-seed oil, cotton-cloth, flour and ice.

A textbook example of this is Eli Whitney and the cotton gin.

We are sympathetic to the laid-off workers, but no one would suggest the cotton gin not be installed.

The cotton gin example is the same as if Chad were replaced by a gin.

The cotton gin, steel ploughs, tractors, combines, and a thousand other inventions would forever change the farm.

She had a half pint of porter and a quartern of gin, and started toward Islington.

Perfect Lady 6cl gin 1.5cl peach schnapps 1.5cl fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon eggwhite powder Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.

Meanwhile Vidar was on the gin and alka seltzer - a strange mix that I ca n't see catching on.

In Autumn, the sloe bushes provide a rich harvest for the gin drinkers.

Gin ye can licht on ony dacent sensible wumman o ' your ain age I 'm nae jist carin ' sae muckle.