Saw'-gin, n.
n. The form of cotton-gin invented by Eli Whitney, in which the cotton-fibers 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.
n. The form of cotton-gin invented by Eli Whitney, in which the cotton-fibers 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.