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Keeping up with the pace of technology has challenged Congress since the steam engine and the cotton gin transformed the nation’s industrial and agricultural sectors.
—David Klepper, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2024
Keeping up with the pace of technology has challenged Congress since the steam engine and the cotton gin transformed the nation's industrial and agricultural sectors.
—David Klepper, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
Dorie Ladner was 11 months younger than Emmett Till, an African American who was 14 when he was lynched in the Mississippi Delta in 1955, his mutilated body tethered with barbed wire to a cotton gin fan and submerged in the Tallahatchie River.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
But Philippon’s findings, bolstered by Goldman Sachs’s note, should provide a solid source of comfort, and a strong rebuttal to a pro-office boss: Humans have been becoming gradually less productive since Eli Whitney debuted the cotton gin—why, even with rapidly advancing AI, would that change now?
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
Days after Till was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman, his body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, where it was tossed after being weighted down with a cotton gin fan.
—Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2022
The Calico Rose quilt shop in Florence now has one, as do Camp McDowell in Nauvoo, the Todd Farms General Store in Headland, the Hugh Kaul Children’s Zoo Barn at the Birmingham Zoo and even the historic cotton gin just off the town square in Moulton, which boasts a colorful cotton boll square.
—Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 13 July 2022
The company converted the historic cotton gin manufacturing plant into office and retail space.
—Steve Brown, Dallas News, 24 June 2023
The unincorporated area comprises Woodlawn Missionary Baptist, a cotton gin and some houses.
—Rick Rojas, New York Times, 29 May 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1796, in the meaning defined above
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“Cotton gin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cotton%20gin. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
cotton gin
noun
: a machine that separates the seeds, hulls, and foreign material from cotton
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