Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An establishment for the ginning of cotton.
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- noun a place where
ginning (removing the seeds from cotton) is done.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ginnery is a joint venture between the Industrial Development Corporation and cotton farmers with a Black Economic Empowerment component of at least 25 percent reserved for workers and emerging farmers, "he said.
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GADC is a commercial cotton ginnery with operations in Gulu District in Uganda, a part of the country plagued by 25-years of civil strife and horrendous violence it is estimated that war left 1.4 million citizens in the north homeless.
Jacqueline Novogratz: Winter 2011: A Growing Sense Of Urgency Jacqueline Novogratz 2011
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GADC is a commercial cotton ginnery with operations in Gulu District in Uganda, a part of the country plagued by 25-years of civil strife and horrendous violence it is estimated that war left 1.4 million citizens in the north homeless.
Jacqueline Novogratz: Winter 2011: A Growing Sense Of Urgency Jacqueline Novogratz 2011
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Danish investors plan to spend R100 million on a cotton ginnery and growing operation on the Makhathini Flats in the remote north-eastern region of KwaZulu-Natal, the province's MEC for agriculture Narend Singh said in Durban on Thursday.
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He said the ginnery had already been bought for R30-million.
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South Africa include cattle, tobacco, butter, hides and skins, citrus and other fruits, with cotton (and a cotton ginnery) as the most recent additions to the list.
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A large ginnery is operated here, which is one of the most complete in the state.
Drummond's Pictorial Atlas of North Carolina. Albert Y. Drummond 1924
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Eula Ivey, Oct. 10, 1916; mgr. ginnery, 1914; lumberman, 1914; farmer 1915 -; Methodist.
Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924
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There is a store conducted by his black son, a blacksmith shop, and a ginnery.
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There is a store conducted by his black son, a blacksmith shop, and a ginnery.
VII. Of the Black Belt. William Edward Burghardt 1903
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