1. Cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food
   "He flipped the pancakes with a food turner";
   - food turner
    
2. A lathe operator
   "The skilled turner crafted intricate wooden bowls on his lathe"
    
3. One of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope
   "The experienced turner kept the rope spinning at a steady pace for the jumpers"
    
4. A tumbler who is a member of a turnverein
   "The turner practised gymnastics routines at the German-American athletic club"

1. United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)
   - Henry Turner, Henry Hubert Turner
    
2. United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1932)
   - Frederick Jackson Turner
    
3. English landscape painter whose treatment of light and colour influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)
   - J. M. W. Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner
    
4. United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)
   - Nat Turner
    
5. Liberal Prime Minister of Canada (June-Sept 1984)
   - John Turner

Derived forms: Turners, turners

Type of: actor, cooking utensil, cookware, doer, endocrinologist, freedom fighter, historian, historiographer, insurgent, insurrectionist, painter, Prime Minister, rebel, skilled worker, slave, trained worker, tumbler, worker

Part of: turnverein [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Turner, Michelle