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Whitney invented the cotton gin.
cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented a machine called the cotton gin that separated the seeds from the raw cotton at a fast rate.
cotton gin
The cotton-gin ('gin' - short for engine) It could remove the seeds from the tangle of short-staple cotton, enabling mass-production of cheap fabrics in demand all over the world.
By April 1793, Eli Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber.
cotton gin
The meaning should be "again" - 'gin being a short form thereof
Gin also called Gin Rummy it's called Gin for short and players can play with rules where they pay each other based on how many points you get(so you could say "a penny a point" and if the winner had 150 points the loser would pay them $1.50)
No, the word "fin" has a short I, to rhyme with bin, gin, tin, and win.The word with a long I is the word fine.
Check this link out the short answer is GIN. http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/MothersRuin.htm