ISBN: | 978-5-5110-0776-2 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A cotton gin (short for cotton engine) is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job formerly performed painstakingly by hand. The fibers are processed into cotton goods, and the seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil; if they are badly damaged, they are disposed of.