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Turner   /tˈərnər/   Listen
noun
Turner  n.  
1.
One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.
2.
(Zool.) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.



Turner  n.  A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.






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... Mullins, Francis Cooke, William Brewster, William White, Thomas Rogers, Isaac Allerton, Richard Warren, Thomas Tinker, Miles Standish, John Howland, John Ridgdale, John Alden, Steven Hopkins, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Digery Priest, Richard Clark, Francis Eaton, Thomas Williams, Richard Gardiner, James Chilton, Gilbert Winslow, John Allerton, John Craxton, Edmund Margesson, Thomas English, John Billington, Peter Brown, Edward Doten, Joses Fletcher, Richard Bitteridge, Edward ...
— Studies in Civics • James T. McCleary

... years to write Lavengro. 'I am writing the work,' he told Dawson Turner, 'in precisely the same manner as The Bible in Spain, viz. on blank sheets of old account-books, backs of letters,' &c., and he recalls Mahomet writing the Koran on mutton bones as an analogy to ...
— A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow • Thomas J. Wise

... of these works is wholly unknown. That given is supported by Turner, Arend, Morley, Grein, and Pauli. Wlker argues for an exact reversal of this order. According to Ten Brink, the order was more probably (1)Orosius, (2)Bede, (3) Bothius, and (4)Pastoral Care. The most recent contribution to the subject ...
— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith

... and leaders: Progressive Conservative, Brian Mulroney; Liberal, John Turner; New Democratic, ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... from George Eliot's pen, and was so strong an admirer of her that Mr. W. L. Whitham, who took charge of the Unitarian Church while our pastor (Mr. Woods) had a long furlough in England, asked me to lecture on her works to his Mutual Improvement Society, and I undertook the task with joy. Mr. H. G. Turner asked for the MS. to publish in the second number of The Melbourne Review, a very promising quarterly for politics and literature. I thought that, if I sent the review to George Eliot with a note it might clear me ...
— An Autobiography • Catherine Helen Spence


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