What does "turning" mean?
Turning: The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road. It is preached at every turning. Coleridge.
Additional senses
- 2.Deviation from the way or proper course. Harmar.
- 3.Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
- 4.pl. The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.
- 5.(Mil.) A maneuver by which an enemy or a position is turned. Turning and boring mill, a kind of lathe having a vertical spindle and horizontal face plate, for turning and boring large work. -- Turning bridge. See the Note under Drawbridge. -- Turning engine, an engine lathe. -- Turning lathe, a lathe used by turners to shape their work. -- Turning pair. See the Note under Pair, n. -- Turning point, the point upon which a question turns, and which decides a case.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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