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ginning

SayJIN-ing/ˈd͡ʒɪnɪŋ/

Pluralginnings

2 meanings of ginning

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  1. 1
    nouncountable or uncountable
    The process of separating cotton fibers from their seeds using a cotton gin.

    The plantation invested in new equipment to speed up the ginning each fall.

    Careful ginning leaves the fibers intact and ready for the spinning mill.

  2. 2
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of gin.

    The mill was ginning thousands of pounds of cotton each week during the season.

    She spent the morning ginning the cotton she had picked the day before.

    Note

    One spelling serves three verbs: gin in its cotton-mill sense, gin meaning to catch something in a trap, and an archaic Early Modern gin meaning "to begin". Context tells them apart, since cotton is ginned and an animal is ginned in a trap. The final n doubles before -ing, as in beginning. As a gerund it shades into the noun for the seed-removing process, which can also take a plural, ginnings.

ginning is a form of gin

gin, verb: To remove the seeds from harvested cotton using a cotton gin. Full entry

Forms
gingins he/she/itginning -ing formginned past tense, past participle
Spelling
gin → ginning: double the n, add -ing

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