▪ I. † ˈginning, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. gin v.1 + -ing1.]
= beginning.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 38 Als alle þis sorow & wo was in þe gynnyng, Died S. Dunstan. 1340 Ayenb. 234 Ase ine þe rounde figure, þe ende went ayen to his ginninge. 1429 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 143 The gynning of his roial noblesse. 1463 Bury Wills (Camden) 40 Annexid to the same rolle in the gynnyng. |
So † ˈginningless a., having no beginning.
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. ix. 212 On Endles Ende, o gynnyngles Gynnynge. |
▪ II. ginning, vbl. n.2
(ˈdʒɪnɪŋ)
[f. gin v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of gin v.2 (sense 2); the operation of separating the seeds of cotton from the fibre.
| 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts I. 255 Much of the moss also rubs off in ginning, and mixes with the cotton. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts, Ginning, the operation by which the filaments of cotton are separated from the seeds. 1885 Standard 30 Jan. 5/3 The new fibre will require no ginning. |
b. Comb. (in sense of ‘used in’ or ‘for ginning cotton’), as ginning-cylinder, ginning-house, ginning-machine, ginning-mill.
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 969/1 The *ginning-cylinder. |
| 1884 J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 15 M. Marquet, is erecting a *ginning-house for the preparation of cotton. |
| 1888 Pall Mall G. 22 June 12/1 A *ginning machine which has been introduced into China from Japan. |
| 1879 Sir G. Campbell White & Black 150 Many hands..find employment in the *ginning mills. |