turner

noun

/ˈtɝ.nɚ/US/ˈtɜː.nə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

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”).

derived from tornour
inherited from turnour
inherited from turner

Definitions

1
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.
A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.
A kitchen utensil used for turning food.
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1. A variety of pigeon
  A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
2. A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.
3. An acrobat or gymnast, especially (historical) a member of the German Turnvereine,…
  An acrobat or gymnast, especially (historical) a member of the German Turnvereine, German-American gymnastic clubs that also served as nationalist political groups.
4. An old Scottish copper coin worth two pence, issued by King James VI.
5. An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation.
6. A male given name.
7. A placename.
8. 11
  A person who has Turner syndrome.
  - […] and that the chromatin-negative Turners are XO with 45 chromosomes.
9. Alternative form of turner (“member of German-American nationalist gymnastic clubs”).

The neighborhood

Derived

cooking turner, head-turner, kitchen turner, leaf-turner, neck-turner, page-turner, pancake turner, table-turner, trick turner, U-turner, Parsonage-Turner syndrome, Turner County, Turners Flat, Turners Hill, Turner Township, Turner Valley, Wilson-Turner syndrome

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA