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Turnspit

noun
1.
A roasting spit that can be turned.






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"Turnspit" Quotes from Famous Books



... and keep company with grave aldermen. I dined yesterday in the Poultry with Mr. Alderman Wilkes, and Mr. Alderman Lee, and Counsellor Lee, his brother. There sat you the while, so sober, with your W——'s and your H——'s, and my aunt and her turnspit; and when they are gone, you think by chance on Johnson, what is he doing? What should he be doing? He is breaking jokes with Jack Wilkes upon the Scots. Such, Madam, are the vicissitudes of things.' Piozzi ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell



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