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Cotton gin   /kˈɑtən dʒɪn/   Listen
Cotton gin

noun
1.
A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers.  Synonym: gin.






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"Cotton gin" Quotes from Famous Books



... Indeed, practically all the great labor-saving devices of the past century and more have originated here. "Yankee ingenuity" has passed into a proverb, and a true one, for the country which has produced the steamboat, the cotton gin, the sewing machine, the electric telegraph, the phonograph, the telephone, the typewriter, the reaper and binder, to mention only a few of the achievements of American inventors, may surely claim first place in this respect among the nations ...
— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson



Words linked to "Cotton gin" :   machine, gin



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