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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gin +‎ -ery

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Examples

  • 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.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • He said the ginnery had already been bought for R30-million.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • 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.

    The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 15 1969

  • 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

  • Eula Ivey, Oct. 10, 1916; mgr. ginnery, 1914; lumberman, 1914; farmer 1915 -; Methodist.

    Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924

  • There is a store conducted by his black son, a blacksmith shop, and a ginnery.

    The Souls of Black Folk 1915

  • 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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