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. 2. The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of
a road.
It is preached at every turning.
Coleridge.
3. Deviation from the way
or proper course. Harmar.
4.
Turnery, or the shaping of solid substances into various by means of a lathe and cutting tools.
5. pl. The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.
6.
(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.
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