Category: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.

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.

Defn: the pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from The material turned.

6. (mil.)

Defn: 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.