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1. A lathe operator
    
2. One of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope
    
3. Cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food
   - food turner
    
4. A tumbler who is a member of a turnverein

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

Derived forms: Turners, turners

Type of: cooking utensil, cookware, endocrinologist, freedom fighter, historian, historiographer, individual, insurgent, insurrectionist, mortal, painter, person, Prime Minister, rebel, skilled worker, skilled workman, slave, somebody, someone, soul, trained worker, tumbler

Part of: turnverein

Encyclopedia: Turner, Michael