cotton gin

1. 1.

   a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers

   Synonymsgin

   Broadermachine

Questions about cotton gin

What does cotton gin mean?

cotton gin means "a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers".

What is another word for cotton gin?

Close synonyms include gin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cotton gin a common word?

cotton gin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.