1. The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.
2. 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.
TURNEY
Tur"ney, n. & v.
Defn: Tourney. [Obs.] Chaucer. "In open turney." Spenser. Milton.
TURNHALLE Turn"hal`le, n. Etym: [G., from turnen to exercise gymnastics + halle hall.]
Defn: A building used as a school of gymnastics.
TURNICIMORPHAE
Tur`ni*ci*mor"phæ, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Turnix, and -morphous.]
(Zoöl.)
Defn: A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.
TURNING
Turn"ing, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod by day. Milton.