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Turner   /tˈərnər/   Listen
Turner

noun
1.
United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831).  Synonym: Nat Turner.
2.
United States endocrinologist (1892-1970).  Synonym: Henry Hubert Turner.
3.
English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851).  Synonym: Joseph Mallord William Turner.
4.
United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951).  Synonym: Frederick Jackson Turner.
5.
A tumbler who is a member of a turnverein.
6.
A lathe operator.
7.
One of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope.
8.
Cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food.  Synonym: food turner.



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... Tardif Tarnowsky Temesvary Tennyson Tinayre, Marcelle Tolstoy Toulouse Tourdes, G. Tregear Tuckey Turner Tylor, E.B. ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... sublime or rugged scenery, was not in the spirit of the Renaissance. Humanity occupied the attention of poets and painters; and the age was yet far distant when the pantheistic feeling for the world should produce the art of Wordsworth and of Turner. Yet a few great natures even then began to comprehend the charm and mystery which the Greeks had imaged in their Pan, the sense of an all-pervasive spirit in wild places, the feeling of a hidden want, the invisible tie which makes man a part of rocks and woods and streams around ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... of my friends, a Mrs. Turner, who, in the earlier days of her sad widowhood, found it needful to make personal effort for the sustenance of her family, I will here relate. Many who find themselves in trying positions like hers, may, ...
— Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper • T. S. Arthur

... exaggerated in point of numbers and object, had reached Boston, and Governor Dudley had despatched troops to the more exposed out posts of the Provinces of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Forty men, under the command of Major Turner and Captains Price and Gardner, were stationed at Haverhill in the different garrison-houses. At first a good degree of vigilance was manifested; but, as days and weeks passed without any alarm, ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... an exaggerated nationalism, advocated "party patrols" similar to Hitler's storm troops and adopted the Nazi Jew-baiting tactics. His first public appearance with the Nazis was on October 30, 1935, at a meeting held in Lincoln Turner Hall, 1005 Diversey Building, Chicago. Uniformed storm troopers with the swastika on their arm bands patrolled the room. In the course ...
— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak


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