ginner

ginner

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Classical Latin iūniperus
Vulgar Latin ziniperus
Old French genevreder.
Middle Dutch jenever
Dutch jeneverder.
English genevaclip.
English gin
English -er
English ginner

    From gin + -er.

    Noun

    ginner (plural ginners)

    1. A person who operates a cotton gin.
      • 2005, Angela Lakwete, Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America:
        Cotton cloth was currency in Mongol China; in such a market, a gin that could be operated by one ginner replaced the productive but labor-intensive two-person model.
    2. A cotton ginning plant.

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