ginning
Removing cotton seeds
Ginning is the process of separating cotton fibers from their seeds using a cotton gin.
The machine revolutionized cotton production in the American South.
Ginning also serves as the present participle of gin in its less common verbal sense—to trap or snare: ginning rabbits.
In the phrase ginning up, it means to create or stir up: ginning up controversy, ginning up support.
cotton
Plant fiber for textiles
bales · ginner · carding · spinning · staple · compressing · cleaning · picking · harvest · textile
- cottoncotton, boll, cotton bale, cotton fiber, cotton belt
- cotton textilescotton, cotton mills, cotton yarn, cotton cloth, cotton fiber
- farm laborfarmhands, farm labor, field hand, field hands, farm hand
- fiber processingcarding, combing, hackling, retting, fiber separation
- textilescotton, wool, silk, fabric, thread
- food processingcanning, freezing, drying, packaging, pasteurization
- ginning upFabricating or provoking artificially
- cotton ginningMechanically extracting plant fibers
gin, gins, ginned, cotton gin