1852 Househ. Words 22 May 226/1 Here, first—blatant, gay and gaudy—is a Gin Palace—a ‘ginnery,’ in full swing.

2007 A. Pepper Revenge of Captain Paine xviii. 213 In one short stretch, Pyke counted five ginneries, a beer shop, four brothels, three slop shops and a dozen doss houses.

1895 C. H. Hubbard & J. Dartt Hist. Town of Springfield, Vermont 162 Distilleries and ginneries were built in the first years of the century.

1963 Newsweek 14 Jan. 60/3 Burrough, like other reputable British ginneries, distills 80-proof gin for domestic consumption.

2012 W. Griswold Hist. Connecticut River iii. 66 Canny Connecticut farmers soon began to ferment their fruits and grains into alcohol. Ginneries grew up in several river towns, and brandy, hard cider and whiskey production proliferated in the 1600s.

1877 Proc. 12th Ann. Meeting New Eng. Cotton Manufacturer's Assoc. 47 I would go down South, start a ginnery, gin my cotton at certain localities, buy the raw cotton.

1887 Harper's Mag. Aug. 432/1 Showing them..the ginneries where cotton-seed oil was made.

1904 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 201 15 This class of storage house is used..at large ginneries during the latter part of the season when the gins are not running full time.

1956 Nature 25 Feb. 360/1 He invented the heat-treatment which has for decades been applied as compulsory routine at every ginnery in the country.

2002 Frontline (India) 11 Oct. 100/3 Almost all industries—ginneries, cotton pressing factories, hosiery and spinning mills—grew with links to the farm sector, particularly cotton.