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ginnery

American  
[jin-uh-ree] / ˈdʒɪn ə ri /

noun

  • ginneries
    plural
  1. a mill for ginning cotton.


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Etymology

Origin of ginnery

An Americanism dating back to 1895–90; gin 2 + -ery

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There was also a textile company, an oil mill, and a ginnery that prepared cotton for export.

From BBC May 18, 2018

The crop is being picked and soon the ginnery figures will begin definitely to indicate its real amount.

From Time Magazine Archive

Weighing gin bales in a ginnery yard 36 Cotton warehouses in the South The mill, we have seen, frequently pays cash for its raw stock, or else buys upon short term notes.

From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York

The present practice requires three cars to carry the ginnery bales to the compressor, and two cars to carry the compressed bales to the port, warehouse, or mill.

From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York

So great is the pressure exerted that a bundle of cotton coming to the press from the ginnery, 4 feet in depth, is reduced to 7 inches when drawn from the compressor.

From The Story of the Cotton Plant by Frederick Wilkinson

In cotton fields, ginneries, yarn mills, dye facilities and cut-and-sew shops in the Carolinas, conversations get animated when they turn to trade law, which hangs over the work being done.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2024

Jordyn Holman reported from textile factories and ginneries in North and South Carolina.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2024

By July 2020, Patagonia had decided to break the two-decades-long ties with its Chinese partners and build relationships with new cotton farmers, ginneries and spinners in other countries.

From New York Times May 27, 2022

There were in the United States, in 1917, a total of 24,272 ginneries, of which 3,921 were idle.

From The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York

In addition to the small country ginneries, large modern ginneries have now been set up in all the leading Southern market towns.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various

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