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单词 gin mill
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gin mill
gin mill n. a cotton mill where a cotton gin is used.
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1875 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old 46 The idea of a pavement in a one horse town composed of two gin mills, a blacksmith's shop, and that mustardplaster of a newspaper, the Daily Hurrah!
?1957 R. Lax Let. 13 Dec. in A. W. Biddle When Prophecy still had Voice (2001) iii. 143 Cotton Mather invented the gin-mill. This was called the unlustrious resolution: more cuttin, more mathers, more resolutions, and more gin-mills.
2011 M. B. Bush Sweet Hope 51 The gin mill clanged, and it was like hammers banging against their chests.
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gin mill n. U.S. colloquial a drinking saloon or bar, esp. a disreputable or seedy one.
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1859 N.Y. Herald 8 Nov. 1/5 The merits of the respective candidates are discussed with equal zest in the palatial mansion and..where gin mills and filth abound.
1968 J. McPhee Pine Barrens viii. 141 When a poacher has made his kill, or kills, he goes back to the gin mill.
2016 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 5 Feb. b11 When I was bartending at my gin mill, I would see veterans having flashbacks.
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