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▪ I. turnip, n.|ˈtɜːnɪp|
Also 6–7 turnepe, (-eppe, -op), 6–9 turnep, (7 turnepp, turnup, turneupp, turneip, turnoop); dial. turmit, -at, -ut, tormit, tummit, etc.
[In 16–17th c. turnepe, in 16–19th c. turnep, from c 1782 turnip; the second element being neep, nepe, or nep, OE. nǽp, ad. L. nāpus navew, turnip (mentioned by Columella and Pliny); the first element is uncertain, but is generally supposed to be F. tour or Eng. turn, referring to its rounded shape. There is no kindred name in other langs., except when evidently from Eng., as in Welsh and Irish.]
1. a. The fleshy, globular or spheroidal root of a biennial cruciferous plant, Brassica Rapa, var. depressa, having toothed, somewhat hairy leaves, and yellow flowers, cultivated from ancient times as a culinary vegetable, and for feeding sheep and cattle; also, the plant itself, of which the young shoots (turnip-tops) are frequently boiled as greens.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1539) 25 Turnepes beinge welle boyled in water, and after with fatte fleshe, norysheth moche. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 113 The great round rape, called commonly a turnepe, groweth in very great plenty in all Germany. 1601Holland Pliny xviii. xiii. I. 571 The best Husbandmen..give order, That the ground for Turneps [L. napum] should have five tilthes. 1629Parkinson Paradisus 508 There are diuers sorts of Turneps, as white, yellow, and red. 1672Court-bk. Barony of Urie (1892) 92 Some people..did steall furth thereof turnepes and carrottis and uther rootis. 1759in Q. Jrnl. Economics (1907) Nov. 78 In case of Wet Weather while the Sheep are at turneps they are to have the Liberty of Great Oxenden. 1764in W. Wing Ann. Steeple Aston (1875) 63 Agreed at vestry to sow Sandhill turnoops this next year. 1782Barker in Phil. Trans. LXXII. 282 A wet week in the middle did not greatly hurt the hay, and was very good for the turnips. 1839P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 168, I brought home 18 prime partridges and I lost another in the high turnips. 1863Robson Bards of Tyne 315 We hev taties and turmits like Rosemary toppin.
†b. spec. The spheroidal root itself. Obs. rare.
1578Lyte Dodoens v. xxxiii. 593 There is another kinde of Turnep or Rape... His rootes or Turneppes are not white but red. 1765J. W. Baker in Museum Rust. V. 265 When the sheep have eaten all the leaves, and begin to eat the butts or turneps of this plant [turnip-cabbage], they will not rot as turnips do, when wounded.
c. app. = turnip-lantern: see 4 b.
1766Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 30 Sept. (1889) I. 64, I told Lucy unless She cou'd produce more light I must go. She said She wou'd send for two turnips; 'twas all She cou'd do.
2. a. Applied, usually with defining word, to other species or varieties of Brassica; as cabbage-t. or Hungarian t., the turnip-rooted Cabbage or Kohlrabi (B. oleracea gongylodes); French t. (a) the rape, B. Napus or B. campestris; (b) a variety of B. Napus, extensively cultivated in France and Germany, and much used as a flavouring for soups; Swedish t., B. campestris Rutabaga; teltow t. = French t. (b); wild t., the rape; see also b; yellow t., a yellow variety of the common turnip.
1548Turner Names Herbs (E.D.S.) 55 Napus... I haue hearde sume cal it in englishe a turnepe, and other some a naued or nauet. 1562― Herbal ii. 112 b, Rapum..is called in English of them of the South countre, turnepe, of other countre men a rape. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ii. 179 There be three sorts of wilde Turneps. Ibid., Wilde Turneps or Rapes, haue long, broad, and rough leaues like those of Turneps. Ibid. 180 Wilde Turneps or Rapes, do grow of themselues in fallow fields. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 288 We sowed it part with Naueaus or small Turneps. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 157 Yellow Turneps..are commonly sown in Gardens, but are of very great advantage to be sown in Fields, not only for the use of the Kitchen, but for Food for Cattle in Winter. 1731–3Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 2), Napus, the Navew or French Turnip. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 330 Turnep, French, Brassica. c1791Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VIII. 761/1 The ruta baga, or Swedish turnip, is a plant from which great expectations have been formed. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xv. (1813) 261 The most common [turneps] are the white sorts; but the yellow and red are worthy of trial. Ibid. 262 The cabbage turnep is of two kinds: one apples above ground, and the other in it. 1858Hogg Veg. Kingd. 67 B. napus is the..Rape or Cole⁓seed... There is a variety of this, called by the French Chou Navette, and by us French Turnip (B. n. esculenta), which is employed in flavouring all foreign soups. 1866Treas. Bot. 167/2 The Teltow Turnip, or ‘Navet de Berlin petit’ of the French (B. Napus var.), is very different from any of our cultivated varieties of Turnip, its root being long and spindle-shaped.
b. Applied to plants of other genera having roots or tubers like those of the turnip, as Indian t., lion's t., prairie t.: see these words; also St. Anthony's t., the bulbous buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus; wild t. = Indian t. (in both uses).
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. iv. 182 Lyons turnep [Leontice Leontopetalum] is of force to digest. 1856A. Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 94 Psoralea esculenta,..the Indian Turnip,..used as food by the aborigines. Ibid. 427 Arisæma triphyllum, Indian Turnip. 1866Treas. Bot. 176/1 B[ryonia] dioica, the Common Bryony... The root is used..as a purgative; but it is unsafe from its uncertain and sometimes violent action, whence the French call it Devil's-turnip. 1894Gibson in Harper's Mag. 565 The wild arum of Great Britain..the foreign counterpart of our well known jack-in-the-pulpit, or Indian turnip.
3. a. In slang phrases, sometimes with pun on turn-up. See quots.
a1596Sir T. More ii. ii, Come, come; wele tickle ther turnips, wele butter ther boxes. Shall strangers rule the roste? 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Turnips, to give any body turnips signifies to turn him or her up, and the party so turned up, is said to have knap'd turnips. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 27 note, This gourd forms a favourite metaphor in common parlance: ‘le ha dado Calabazas’, she has refused him; it is the ‘giving cold turnips’ of Suffolk.
b. Slang term for an old-fashioned thick silver watch.
1840E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 59 An old turnip of a watch..on the table beside her. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i. vi, His mechanical turnip showed him that he had no time to lose. 1903A. Adams Log Cowboy xv. 234 My turnip says it's eight o'clock now.
c. Humorously applied to a person: cf. turnip-head, -headed in 4.
1837Dickens Pickw. xxxiii, ‘But now’, continued Sam, ‘now I find what a reg'lar soft-headed, inkred'lous turnip I must ha been’.
4. attrib. and Comb.
a. simple attrib., as turnip-cart, turnip crop, turnip-culture, turnip-drill, turnip-farmer, turnip-field, turnip-husbandry, turnip-leaf, turnip-pit, turnip plot, turnip-root, turnip-seed, turnip-trough, etc.; also allusively, turnip-head, turnip-heart, turnip-pate, turnip-watch; in names of things made of turnips, or in which the turnip is a principal ingredient, as turnip-bread, turnip pasty, turnip pie, turnip poultice; objective and obj. genitive, as turnip-chopper, turnip-cutter, turnip-grower, turnip-hoer, turnip-picker, turnip-puller, turnip-pulper, turnip-slicer, turnip-sower, turnip-thinner (freq. as names of machines); turnip-bearing, turnip-cutting, turnip-eating, turnip-hacking, turnip-sowing, turnip-thinning, ns. and adjs.; instrumental, parasynthetic, similative, etc., as turnip-feeding; turnip-faced (cf. sense 3 b), turnip-fed, turnip-headed, turnip-leaved, turnip-like, turnip-pointed, turnip-rooted, turnip-shaped, turnip-stalked, turnip-stemmed, turnip-tailed adjs.
1812W. Tennant Anster F. i. viii, Anster's *turnip⁓bearing vales.
1693S. Dale in Phil. Trans. XVII. 970 Of this *Turnep-Bread (for so they call it) I have both seen and tasted. 1763Museum Rust. (ed. 2) I. 106, I baked my turnep-bread rather longer than the other. 1832Veg. Subst. Food 236 In..1629 and 1630..good..wholesome bread was made of boiled turnips,..kneaded with..wheaten flour,..called turnip-bread.
1664Butler Hud. ii. Heroic. Ep. Sidrophel 20 A Wheel-barrow, or *Turnip Cart.
1837Brit. Husb. II. 246 The roots are commonly cut into pieces by an instrument called the ‘*turnip-chopper’. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 119 Much better instruments will be found in the two hand turnip-choppers.
1801Farmer's Mag. Jan. 107 The *turnip crop is probably the best..ever remembered.
Ibid. Aug. 279 The soil..is not..of that stiff sort adapted to beans or wheat, but abundantly free, so as to be well adapted to *turnip-culture.
1837Flemish Husb. 89 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, The roots were cut by a machine something like our *turnip-cutters. 1879J. Wrightson in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 108/2, 1 bushel of swedes, cut small in a..turnip-cutter.
1854M. Howitt Pict. Calend. Seasons 17 There was a noise of straw-cutting and *turnip-cutting.
1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xxii. 328 The spring of the *Turnep-Drill being so very thin [etc.]. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 17 Turnip-Drill..for sowing turnips on the tops of one-bout ridges. 1856Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 1026 The proper width of a turnip drill in Scotland seems..to be..twenty-seven inches.
a1668Davenant Vacation in Lond. Wks. (1673) 291 All these on hoof now trudge from Town, To cheat poor *Turnip-eating Clown.
1939F. Thompson Lark Rise iii. 49 The old *turnip-faced watches which descended from father to son.
1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. x. 103 If Turneps be sown in June,..the most experienc'd *Turnep-Farmers, will have no more than Thirty to a square Perch left in Hand-hoeing.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Plate x. 40 A Scuffler employed..in putting in grain crops on *turnip-fed lands after one ploughing. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 354 If straw be economically applied in littering turnip-fed stock [etc.].
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 329 *Turnip-feeding was apt to breed wind in the sheep.
1773Gentl. Mag. Dec. 618/2 In his distress he frequented a *turnep-field.
1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 39 Sheep-flakes, or hurdles, a sort of portable fence, well known to every *turnip grower.
1883T. Hardy in Longm. Mag. July 267 A farm-woman's occupation is often ‘*turnip-hacking’—that is, picking out from the land the stumps of turnips which have been eaten off by the sheep.
1869D. G. Rossetti Let. 1 Mar. (1965) II. 689 The *turnip-head falls off the broomstick. 1931S. Kaye-Smith Susan Spray iii. 281 He..saw her standing there..fooling all those turnip-heads, who wanted to be fooled. 1962Spectator 2 Nov. 684 Pop..has become the divisive symbol between the turnip-heads and the giant intellects.
1898J. Arch Story of Life xiii. 322 The *turnip-headed farmer turned his back upon us.
c1620Fletcher & Massinger Trag. Barnavelt ii. ii, We are strong enough to curb 'em. But we have *turnop hearts.
1791W. H. Marshall W. England (1796) II. 283 Any woman..will, in one full season become a sufficient *Turnep hoer. 1886T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. i, A turnip-hoer with his hoe on his shoulder.
1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. x. 102 The greatest Inconvenience, which has been observ'd in the *Turnep-Husbandry, is when they are Fed off late in the Spring. 1848Hepburn in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 6. 272 Turnip husbandry, and the cultivation of red clover, were introduced about 1740.
1766J. W. Baker in Compl. Farmer s.v. Turnep, The upper side of the *turnip leaf, in its infant state, is very smooth, and on that part the flies always lodge.
c1711Petiver Gazophyl. Dec. ix. Tab. 81 *Turnep-leaved Cape Dandelion.
1766Museum Rust. VI. 46 By this..production of the *turnep-like knob, together with its being perennial, this species of cabbage is distinguished from all others.
1905Daily Chron. 14 July 4/7 In Cornwall the fisherman home from sea, in the intervals of blowing the fire, blows himself out with *turnip pasty.
1813Columbian Centinel (Boston) 1 Sept. 1/2, I cannot protect every man's *turnip patch.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, *Turnep-pate, White or Fair-hair'd.
1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 40 The shells..were picked out of the ground with..a *turnip-picker.
1835W. Howitt in L'Estrange Friendships Miss Mitford (1882) I. 267 A *turnip-pie fit in size to set on Arthur's own round table.
1899Crockett Kit Kennedy xxx, Kit only lifted the lantern and made for the *turnip-pits.
1670Wood Life 2 June (O.H.S.) II. 194 Buried..in her garden..under a *turnip plot.
1887Amer. Naturalist XXI. 435 *Turnip-pointed red [beet].
1735Burdon Pocket Farrier 29 The *Turnip Poultice will infallibly cure it.
1606G. W[oodcocke] Lives Emperors in Hist. Ivstine L l v b, It rained wheat, *Turnup-rootes, and pease in Slesia, which much comforted the poore people, in the extreamity of famine. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. i. 5 A large Root..which..might have..extended near as far as the Turnep Roots did.
1727Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Cyclamen, The German Cyclamens are rather *Turnep-rooted Plants than Bulbs. 1769Chron. in Ann. Reg. 65/2 A premium for the cultivating..of..the turnip-rooted cabbage. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 651 The Red Beet... The turnip-rooted is an early variety with the roots round.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, De la Navette, *turnop seed. 1621Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 250 Turneppe seede, iiijd. 1833Ridgemont Farm Rep. 155 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, It was drilled with turnip-seed upon a limestone soil.
1788Trans. Soc. Arts VI. 231 A Model of a Cabbage and *Turnep Slicer. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 41 The..better plan of serving turnips to sheep..is to cut them into small pieces with a turnip-slicer into troughs conveniently placed for use.
1889H. M. B. Reid Galloway Folk 42 A brand-new gaudily painted *turnip-sower.
1765J. W. Baker in Museum Rust. V. 270, I could not accomplish my *turnip-sowing earlier.
1786Abercrombie Arr. in Gard. Assist. p. vi, *Turnep⁓stalked, with the turnep above ground.
1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 29 The *turnip-stemmed cabbage or kholrabi.
Ibid. 11 Fig. 213 represents the form of the *turnip-store.
1875Encycl. Brit. I. 321/2 *Turnip-Thinners... A class of machines has been brought out, of which Huckvale's turnip-thinner may be named as a type.
1905Contemp. Rev. July 97, [I] went down the cart-track to the *turnip-thinning.
1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 41 A simple form of *turnip-trough.
1898Tit-Bits 25 June 245/2 Consulting his..*turnip watch to see if his daughters' train was due.
1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 77 A bad *turnip year.
b. Special combinations: turnip-aphid, -aphis, the plant-louse of the turnip, Aphis rapæ; turnip-beetle, the turnip-flea; turnip-cabbage, the turnip-stemmed cabbage or kohlrabi; turnip-flea (also turnip flea-beetle), a minute shiny black leaping beetle, Haltica nemorum, which feeds on the young leaves of the turnip and other crucifers; its larva mines in the full-grown leaf; turnip-flower beetle: see quot.; turnip-fly, (a) = turnip-flea; (b) the turnip-sawfly, a hymenopterous insect, Athalia centifoliæ, the larva of which (turnip-nigger) feeds on turnip-leaves; (c) a dipterous insect, Anthomyia radicum, whose larva lives in the root of the turnip; turnip-gall weevil: see quot.; turnip-ghost, a simulated ghost or apparition of which the head is formed by a turnip-lantern; turnip-grass, Panicum bulbosum, used as hay in Texas, Arizona, and Mexico, the stems of which have a bulbous base (Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909); turnip greens = turnip-tops; turnip-jack = turnip-flea; turnip-land = turnip-soil; turnip-lantern, the hollowed rind of a turnip employed as a lantern; also as a term of abuse (Eng. Dial. Dict.); turnip leaf-miner, ? the larva of the turnip-flea; turnip-louse = turnip-aphis (Cent. Dict. Suppl.); turnip-maggot, the larva of Anthomyia radicum (turnip-fly c) (Cent. Dict.); turnip-mutton, the flesh of turnip-sheep; turnip-nigger, the black larva of Athalia centifoliæ (turnip-fly b); turnip-oats, a crop of oats succeeding turnips; turnip-parsnip, a turnip-rooted parsnip; so turnip-radish; turnip-saw-fly = turnip-fly b; turnip-sheep, sheep that have been fed on turnips; turnip-shell, a shell of the family Turbinellidæ, esp. of the genus Rapa (Cent. Dict.): turnip-sick a., of land: exhausted by successive crops of turnips; turnip-soil, soil suitable or used for turnip-culture; turnip-system, a system of crop-rotation based on turnip-culture; turnip-top (usu. pl.), the sprouting leaves of the second year's growth of the turnip, used as a vegetable; turnip-tray, a hurdle used for penning sheep on turnip-land; turnip-wheat, cf. turnip-oats; turnip-wood, Australian rosewood, Synoum glandulosum (N.O. Meliaceæ), or its timber, which smells like turnips; see also quot. 1898.
1891Cent. Dict., *Turnip-aphid... Also *turnip-aphis. 1908Westm. Gaz. 30 May 7/3 The corn-aphis, hop-aphis, turnip-aphis, bean-aphis.
1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxiii. (1818) II. 312 When the *turnip-beetle (Haltica oleracea, F.) walks, its antennæ are alternately elevated and depressed. 1882Garden 25 Mar. 198/1 The Turnip fly (or, as the well-known insect should more properly be called, the Turnip beetle or flea).
1765Ann. Reg. ii. 146/2 The *turnep-cabbage is so called, because the stalk, after rising to some distance from the ground..swells suddenly into a roundish knob. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 627 The Turnip-cabbage, or turnip borecole,..is a dwarf-growing plant, with the stem swelled out so as to resemble a turnip above ground, but of a delicate green colour.
1867Brande & Cox Dict. Sc., etc. III. 881/2 The *turnip-flea belongs to a genus..of minute Coleopterous insects, of the section Tetramera, and family Galerucidæ. 1843Zoologist I. 371 The valuable Sweedish turnip [has] put forth its second pair of leaves, and just escaped the ravages of the turnip flea beetle.
1882Garden 25 Mar. 198/2 The *Turnip flower beetle..a very small, flat, bronzy green beetle.
1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xxiv. 391 By the shallow or deep [seed sown], the *Turnep-Fly is generally disappointed. 1765J. W. Baker in Museum Rust. V. 277, I discovered last season three distinct species of the turnip fly..one of them is black; it seems to hop like a flea. 1771[see dolphin 7]. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 217 The turnip fly..fixes itself upon the seed leaves of the turnip at the time that they are beginning to perform their functions. 1879E. P. Wright Anim. Life 498 One of the best-known species [of Tetramera] is the so-called Turnip-fly (Haltica nemorum).
1844Stephens Bk. Farm III. 781 The Curculio plurostigma, the *Turnip⁓gall weevil.
1863Kingsley Water-Bab. viii. (1864) 349 Out popped *turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and paste⁓board bogies.
1796J. Woodforde Diary 9 Feb. (1929) IV. 262 Dinner to day, fryed Pork & *Turnip Green. 1858Glenny Gard. Every-day Bk. 247/2 They may give a few Turnip-greens when they are very useful. 1873Routledge's Yng. Gentl. Mag. Mar. 229/1 The young and tender leaves, which are popularly called ‘turnip-greens’.
1801Farmer's Mag. Apr. 238 Almost every acre of *turnip⁓land has been sown with wheat, as fast as the grounds were cleared.
1844E. FitzGerald Lett. (1894) I. 163 You have seen a *turnip-lantern, perhaps.
1844Stephens Bk. Farm III. 778 A class of insects called *turnip-leaf miners.
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 335 Several butchers..agreed..that *turnip-mutton would be waterish.
1893Daily News 20 Apr. 6/2 The sparrow,..that brazen little thief who affects to despise wireworm, *turnip nigger, and gooseberry grub, but has the keenest of keen eyes for blossoming peas and delicate young wheat.
c1800T. Blackadder in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 12. 101 Your queys and stots, Hae trampled a' my *turnip oats.
1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 81 *Turnep-radish—sow the small white Italian sort.
1844Stephens Bk. Farm III. 772 The *turnip saw-fly, Athalia spinarum,..is denominated a saw-fly, from the use and appearance of the instrument with which it deposits its eggs.
Ibid. II. 48 *Turnip-sheep are thus easily obtained at fairs in autumn.
1880Jefferies Gt. Estate i. 6 Some of the land is getting ‘*turnip-sick’, the roots come stringy and small and useless.
1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 34 This ought more especially to be attended to upon all *turnip soils. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm I. 330 No kind of soil affords so dry and comfortable a lair to sheep on turnips, and on this account it is distinguished as ‘turnip-soil’.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 540 Another sort of this grain that may probably be cultivated to advantage in particular cases, as where the *turnip system is much practised.
1710Swift City Shower 63 Dead Cats and *Turnip-Tops come tumbling down the Flood. 1848C. C. Clifford Aristoph., Frogs 22 Don't beat him with a leek or turnip-top. 1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 44 Turnip-tops contain a considerable amount of nutritive matter.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 672 Sheep-penns or *turnip-trays made and fixed in such a way as to constitute a sort of moveable trough.
1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 164 This stubble as well as that of the lay and *turnip wheat is frequently refreshed with..dung.
1891Cent. Dict., *Turnip-wood,..Synoum glandulosum. 1898Morris Austral Eng., Turnip-wood, the timbers of the trees Akania hillii,..N.O. Sapindaceæ, and Dysoxylon Muelleri.. N.O. Meliaceæ, from their white and red colours respectively.
Hence turniˈpology (nonce-wd.), contemptuous term for phrenology; whence turniˈpologist; ˈturnipy a., like, or like that of, a turnip; pertaining to or connected with turnips; tasting of turnips.
1824J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XV. 711 Bad novels, which no human creature above the calibre of a *Turnipologist would now endure three pages of.
Ibid. 150 The system..I mean *Turnipology. 1826Scott Jrnl. 29 Dec., The son..tampers with phrenology... There is a certain kind of cleverish men..who are attached to that same turnipology.
1792–5Aikin Even. at Home xxiii. (1805) V. 70 The reason why *turnipy milk and butter have such a strong taste. 1818Sporting Mag. II. 229 His constitution is inclined to the turnippy sort, and..he will not stand through those lengthened..combats. 1853Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIV. i. 72 Disagreeable turnipy flavour. 1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 70 My acquaintance is confined to half-a-dozen turnipy squires and their wives.
▪ II. ˈturnip, v.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To plant or crop (land) with turnips.
1789Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) II. 63 Was the ground turneped three years? 1854Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. ii. 420 The land is given to couch if not turniped often.
2. To feed or fatten (sheep) on turnips.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 320 Shearling wethers; turniped by many, and sold in the wool. 1847Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VIII. ii. 430 Those [sheep] in good condition, and off the best farms, are bought for turnipping. 1868Ibid. Ser. ii. IV. ii. 350 Not a few ‘Penrith hoggs’ are turniped in Dumfries. |