Definitions for GAN

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GAN gan

Spelling: [gan]

IPA: /gæn/

Gan is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in GAN (agn).

Definitions for GAN

noun

1. cotton gin.
2. a trap or snare for game.
3. any of various machines employing simple tackle or windlass mechanisms for hoisting.
4. a stationary prime mover having a drive shaft rotated by horizontal beams pulled by horses walking in a circle.
5. Also called gin rummy. a variety of rummy for two players, in which a player with 10 or fewer points in unmatched cards can end the game by laying down the hand.
6. the winning of such a game by laying down a full set of matched cards, earning the winner a bonus of 20 or 25 points.

verb

1. simple past tense of gin3 .

verb (used with object)

1. to clear (cotton) of seeds with a gin.
2. to snare (game).

verb (used without object)

1. to win a game in gin by laying down a hand in which all 10 cards are included in sets.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to begin.

Origin of GAN

1150-1200; Middle English gyn, aphetic variant of Old French engin engine

Examples for GAN

Then with full merry converse / gan the twain their foes to taunt.

Then gan they from the wooing / strive to turn the noble thane.

Then gan the monarch hasten / where he did find the lady fair.

Then gan he cast his glances / on the Lady Kriemhild lovingly.

Hannah and the others with gan would have at least a chance where there had been no chance at all.

As with other gan kids, numbness is accompanied by an unusual sensitivity.

Then from his horse alighted / the knight of spirit high, And gan a running after.

The young James had a lot of irreverent fun with the idea of the Great American Novel—the gan, as he called it.

Then gan straightway Siegfried / the country's custom to declare.

“Eight weeks in the life of a child with gan is huge,” Lori says.