turner
nounEtymology From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn + -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).
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One who or that which turns.
- Everyone kept turning around and craning their necks to look at the gaps, and Miss Griffin gave all the turners and craners paralyzing stares whenever she caught their eye.2016, Robin Stevens, Murder Is Bad Manners, page 236:
2
A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.
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A kitchen utensil used for turning food.
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Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.
- Derived terms
- cooking turner, head-turner, kitchen turner, leaf-turner, neck-turner, page-turner, pancake turner, table-turner, trick turner, Turnerism, U-turner, woodturner