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ginner

ginner noun: a person who operates a cotton gin.

Noun

ginner (plural ginners)

  1. A person who operates a cotton gin.
    • 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.2005, Angela Lakwete, Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
  2. A cotton ginning plant.

Forms of ginner

pluralginners

Origin of ginner

From gin + -er.

Questions about ginner

What does ginner mean?
Ginner means a person who operates a cotton gin.
What part of speech is ginner?
Ginner is a noun.
What is the plural of ginner?
The plural of ginner is ginners.

Words near ginner in the dictionary

  1. ginned up
  2. ginnee
  3. ginnees
  4. ginnel
  5. ginnels
  6. ginner
  7. ginneries
  8. ginners
  9. ginnery
  10. ginnet
  11. ginnets

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