Turnery Definition

tûrnə-rē
turneries
noun
The work or shop of a lathe operator.
Webster's New World

The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

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Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe.

Chairs of wood, the seats triangular, the backs, arms, and legs loaded with turnery. "” Walpole.
Wiktionary

A place where lathework is carried out.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Other Word Forms of Turnery

Noun

Singular:
turnery
Plural:
turneries

Origin of Turnery

  • Compare French tournerie.

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Turnery Sentence Examples

  • The chief industries of Grimsby are shipbuilding, brewing, tanning, manufactures of ship tackle, ropes, ice for preserving fish, turnery, flour, linseed cake, artificial manure; and there are saw mills, bone and corn mills, and creosote works.

  • The wood is heavy, strong; and very close-grained and used in turnery.

  • In northern New England and Canada it is largely manufactured into wood-pulp; it is occasionally used in turnery and for wooden-ware.

  • Brewing, flour-milling, distilling, turnery, cotton-bleaching, cidermaking, metal-founding, tanning, and the manufacture of glass, paper, iron ware, nails, pins, wind-instruments, bricks and sugar are also carried on.

  • Its wood is valued in turnery for cups, bowls and pattern blocks.

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Words Starting With

TTUTUR

Words Ending With

YRYERY

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Words Starting With T and Ending With Y

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