Gin vs. Rum

Ginnoun

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.

Ginnoun

(uncountable) Gin rummy.

Ginnoun

(poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

Ginnoun

(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.

Ginnoun

(obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

Ginnoun

A snare or trap for game.

Ginnoun

A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

Ginnoun

(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

Ginnoun

A pile driver.

Ginnoun

A windpump.

Ginnoun

A cotton gin.

Ginnoun

An instrument of torture worked with screws.

Ginnoun

An Aboriginal woman.

Ginverb

(transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

Ginverb

(transitive) To trap something in a gin.

Ginverb

(archaic) To begin.

Ginconjunction

If.

Ginpreposition

Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.

Ginconjunction

If.

Ginverb

To begin; - often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.

Ginverb

To catch in a trap.

Ginverb

To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

Ginnoun

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.

Ginnoun

Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

Ginnoun

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.

Ginnoun

A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

Ginnoun

strong liquor flavored with juniper berries

Ginnoun

a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose

Ginnoun

a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers

Ginnoun

a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points

Ginverb

separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin

Ginverb

trap with a snare;

Ginnoun

a clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries.

Ginnoun

a form of the card game rummy in which a player holding cards totalling ten or less may terminate play.

Ginnoun

a machine for separating cotton from its seeds.

Ginnoun

a machine for raising and moving heavy weights.

Ginnoun

a trap for catching birds or small mammals.

Ginnoun

an Aboriginal woman.

Ginverb

treat (cotton) in a gin.

Gin

Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink that derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries (Juniperus communis).Gin originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe, particularly in southern France, Flanders and the Netherlands, to provide aqua vita from distillates of grapes and grains. It then became an object of commerce in the spirits industry.

Rumnoun

(uncountable) A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.

Rumnoun

(countable) A serving of rum.

Rumnoun

(countable) A kind or brand of rum.

Rumnoun

A queer or odd person or thing.

Rumnoun

A country parson.

Rumnoun

Any odd person or thing.

Rumnoun

(rare) The card game rummy.

Rumadjective

(obsolete) Fine, excellent, valuable.

Rumadjective

Strange, peculiar.

Rumnoun

A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.

Rumnoun

A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.

Rumadjective

Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.

Rumnoun

distilled from fermented molasses

Rumnoun

a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards

Rumadjective

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;

Rum

Rum is a liquor made by fermenting then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. The distillate, a clear liquid, is usually aged in oak barrels.