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gin race n. now historical the circle or track in which a gin-horse moves.
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1835 J. Holland Hist. & Descr. Fossil Fuel, Collieries, & Coal Trade ix. 185 The formation of what is called the gin-race, or circular track in which the horse attached to the machine travels.
1898 R. L. Galloway Ann. Coal Mining 168 The horse-track, or ‘gin race,’ was round the mouth of the pit.
1966 Cave Sci. Oct. 460 In 1857 the Barmaster laid out ground for a gin race at Ash Nursery Mine, as a circle of 42 ft. diameter, ‘round a stake 20 ft. from the shaft’.
1995 M. Smith in C. Brontë Lett. I. 188 The animal moved in a circular ‘gin-race’.
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