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- English Word Turner Definition A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
- English Word Turner Definition A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.
- English Word Turnerite Definition A variety of monazite.
- English Word Turnery Definition The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.
- English Word Turnery Definition Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe.
- English Word Turney Definition Tourney.
- English Word Turnhalle Definition A building used as a school of gymnastics.
- English Word Turnicimorphae Definition A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.
- English Word Turning Definition The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.
- English Word Turning Definition The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.
- English Word Turning Definition Deviation from the way or proper course.
- English Word Turning Definition Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
- English Word Turning Definition The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.
- English Word Turning Definition A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.
- English Word Turning Definition of Turn
- English Word Turningness Definition The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.
- English Word Turnip Definition The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
- English Word Turnip-shell Definition Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
- English Word Turnix Definition Any one of numerous species of birds belonging to Turnix or Hemipodius and allied genera of the family Turnicidae. These birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical characteristics. The hind toe is usually lacking. They are found in Asia, Africa, Southern Europe, the East Indian Islands, and esp. in Australia and adjacent islands, where they are called quails (see Quail, n., 3.). See Turnicimorphae.
- English Word Turnkey Definition A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.