"saw gin" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: saw gins [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} saw gin (plural saw gins)
  1. A form of cotton gin in which the cotton fibres are drawn, by the teeth of a set of revolving circular saws, through a wire grating which is too fine for the seeds to pass through.
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Inflected forms

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