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Etymology

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gin +‎ -er

Noun

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ginner (plural ginners)

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

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