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Definition of Cotton gin
1. Noun. A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers.
Definition of Cotton gin
1. Noun. A machine used for separating cotton fibers from cotton seeds, etc. ¹
2. Noun. (slang) Any mechanism that separates one person from another, whether it be distance, time, or apathy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotton Gin
Literary usage of Cotton gin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1898)
"THE story of the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, ... Instead, therefore,
of the cotton gin being an original product of Whitney's brain, it was, ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1847)
"THE American Journal of Science for 1832 contains a memoir of Eli Whitney, the
inventor of the Cotton-Gin, which was prepared by Professor Olmsted, ..."
3. The Industrial Evolution of the United States by Carroll Davidson Wright (1897)
"... when mention was made of the difficulties of separating the fleece of the
cotton plant from the seed * COTTON-GIN.—A machine used in separating the ..."
4. Cotton Ginners Handbook edited by W. S. Anthony, William D. Mayfield (1995)
"1983. Influence of the payment-in- kind program on ginning costs. cotton gin and
Oil Mill Press 84:10-12. Anthony, W. Stanley, and William D. ..."
5. Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil War by Richard Grant White (1866)
"THE UNIVERSAL COTTON-GIN. BY THE AUTHOR OF " COTTON STATES." HE journeyed all
creation through, A pedlar's wagon trotting in; A haggard man of sallow hue, ..."
6. Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge (1860)
"... Cotton Mill—Exclusion of Slavery from NW Territory—Elements of Slavery
expansion—cotton gin invented—Suppression of the Slave Trade—Cotton Manufactures ..."
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