turn-comb. form

1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 930 If operating in daylight, they must have a complete set of instruments including duplicate turn and bank indicators, compass, air speed indicator, [etc.].

1981 Pilot Jan. 45/1 A Motorola low-frequency transceiver with..altimeter, turn-and-bank and a clock.

1955 R. N. Liptrot & J. D. Woods Rotorcraft iii. 25 Further instruments include..turn-and-slip indicator.

1978 A. Welch Bk. of Airsports ii. 36/2 The instruments used to cope with cloud flying are either a turn-and-slip indicator or an artificial horizon, or both.

1688 J. Bunyan Jerusalem-sinner Saved (1886) 42 Witness those turn-aways from God that you also read of in Jeremiah.

1858 Dickens Let. 11 Aug. (1995) VIII. 623 Wherever I read twice, the turn-away is invariably on the second occasion.

1867 Dickens Let. 15 Feb. (1999) XI. 314 We had an enormous turnaway last night, and do not doubt about having a cram tonight.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 188 Turn-bat, a wooden stick used in turning the tongs which hold a bloom under the hammer.

1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl.

1679 Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 1. 7 The turn~beam which hangs over the shaft has been thrown off its frame by the force of it [explosion].

1828 Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Jigpin A pin used by miners to hold the turn-beams, and prevent them from turning.

1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 225 An Iron Lathe called a Turn-Bench... When they use it they screw it in the Chaps of a Vice.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 359/2 To work small work in Metal..a Turn-Bench.

1895 Model Steam Engine 94 Turn Bench..a miniature lathe, used for small turning, and to which the..circular motion is imparted by a catgut bow.

1596 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 226 Inventorium..a torne boltte: a peate sledd..etc.

1898 Daily News 9 May 3/1 The Lee Turnbolt Rifle..is easily kept in order by a soldier or sportsman.

1896 Daily News 29 June 7/1 Ailsa rapidly gained.., and at the turn~boat she had reduced the gap between her and Britannia to five minutes.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 100 Smiths..ask'd me 6d. per Pound for Casements..with Turn~bouts (or Turn-buckles, as some call'd 'em) or Cock-spurs, and Pull-backs at the Hind-side to pull them to with.

1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 109 Their draw bridges,..turn-bridges, as the bars of turnpikes.

1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 361 The turnbridges which he introduced upon his canals, instead of the old drawbridges.

1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) ix. 419 The rings are secured in the circular rabbett of the square piece of wood..by small turn buttons.

1893 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (1907) 33 Two turn~buttons, screwed to the window frame, will keep the frame in position.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 65/2 The Mountain Lilly Imperial,..by Florists called Martagon Imperial, but by common People the Turn-Cap.

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Turn-Cap, a chimney top, which turns round with the wind.

1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 14 The little bright scarlet or ‘Turn-cap’ Lily.

1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 134 The Trumpeter..very feather~footed and leg'd, turn-crown'd like the nun.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species v. 162 The parent rock-pigeon was not feather-footed or turn-crowned.

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Turn-file, a burnisher used in throwing up slight burs on the edges of the comb-maker's files, the teeth of which are originally made by the file and not by the chisel.

1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 256 (note) Waggons, after being emptied, are brought round into the road or waggon~way by a turn-frame.

1810 in J. Thirsk & J. Imray Suffolk Farming 19th Cent. (1958) ii. 77 Various sorts of mould boards, turn furrows or breast plates.

1837 Flemish Husb. 15 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III The sole is a kind of sledge, formed by the end of the share towards the heel, and the lower edge of the turn-furrow.

1905 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 May 2/2 Some belated visitor hurrying to leave the gardens by one of the turngates.

1851 H. Newland Erne 352 I..gaffed him out of the great boiling turnhole below.

1894 Outing 24 249/2 Under the seat..of the car was a sort of turn-up or turn-in bunk, with a comfortable hair-mattress.

1919 J. E. Petavel in Nature 30 Oct. 183/2 A trustworthy turn-indicator and improved compass made accurate navigation through clouds possible.

1930 P. M. Henshaw Air Questions & Answers 180 A Turn Indicator is an instrument that warns a pilot when the machine is turning right or left in circumstances (at night or in a cloud) when he would not be aware of it.

1953 C. A. Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis ii. vi. 303 I glance at the turn indicator, kicking rudder slightly as I do so. The needle jumps over to the side. Yes, it's working properly.

1959 Motor Man. (ed. 36) vi. 183 Flashing turn indicators are operated either by a switch..mounted on the steering column, or by an independent switch mounted within easy reach of the driver.

1970 Motoring Which? July 88/2 All had warning lights for ignition, turn indicators and headlamp main beam.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 71 The contrivance of Signor Campani for making Great Optick-Glasses, by the means of a Turn-lath.

1896 Daily News 29 June 7/1 Britannia closed on the leaders and had the turn mark first.

1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxxvi. 278 The ‘turn-net’... This was a long drag-net, having a pocket at one end. This end was fixed to the bank, and the other paid out so as to enclose a space of water, and then drawn ashore, when the fish were driven into the pocket.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 135/1 A Turn off screwed barrell is a barrell of two peeces and screwed together iust at the height of the charge.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 135/1 Turn off vnscrewed, is when the barrell is in two peeces as foresaid and the top part bored round.

1889 Daily News 5 Aug. 11/3 The turnoff from looms is very limited, prices very steady. Bleached and finished stocks are very small.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Hupé Pigeons hupez, copped, or crested Pigeons, called about London, Turn-pats.

1824 Scott Redgauntlet II. xii. 300 That's always the way with old Turnpenny..he cares for nothing of the trade but the profit.]

1872 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 83 Some observant turn~penny might construct such a treatise as this from the third book.

1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xi. 16 The centre of the breech-piece being cut away, all the strain acts upon the attaching of the turnpin.

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Turn-pin, a plug for stopping the flow from the open end of a pipe. A tube-stopper.

1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 25 Plain turn plates. Used for going round a turn.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 164/2 The shed for the engines and the coaches is erected—the necessary turnplates fixed.

1854 G. N. Jones Florida Plantation Rec. (1927) 104 I think you will nead about 10 turnplowes.

1907 T. F. Hunt Forage & Fiber Crops in Amer. 352 The land having been plowed with an ordinary mold board or turn plow.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. vii. 99 The Sunne maketh there his naturall course in the Zodiacke between the two Tropicks or Turnepoyntes.

1615 G. Markham Pleasures Princes (1635) 42 The huge Cocke (which we call the turne-Pocke).

1773 Pegge in Archaeologia (1775) 3 142 What our sports~men call Shakebags, or Turn-pokes.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §167 (note) The carriage being turned a quarter round upon the Turnpike, or Turnrail.

1801 W. Coxe Hist. Tour Monmouthshire II. xxiv. 231 At the junction of two roads.., moveable rails, called turn rails, are occasionally used, which are fastened with screws.., and may be pushed sideways.

1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. 49 The turn-rails to be twelve feet diameter..the table to be hung on a centre pivot.

1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains 3 A young man..came to a meditative halt in the turn-row.

1888 Atlantic Monthly May 677/1 All adown the turn-row between the ranks of corn.

1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 16 For cutting out curved or circular pieces,..the sweep saw or turn saw..comes into..use.

1841 Liverpool Mercury 11 June 196/2 The majority..was only a turn-scale one; but it was expected to be on the other side.

1778 J. Woodforde Diary 4 June (1924) I. 226 For a turn screw and picker for a gun pd 0. 1. 0.

1801 Sporting Mag. 17 148 Be the spare flint, and ready turn-screw there.

1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 29/1 The fourth was screwed into the bed of the river..by a curious windlass, and lengthening turn-screw, worked by forty men.

1889 G. A. Henty With Lee in Virginia (1890) 176 By a strong turn-screw a bar could be removed in five minutes.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 830/2 The making of ‘turn shoes’ embraces all work in which there is only one thin flexible sole which is sewed to the upper while outside in and turned over when completed.

1915 N.E.D. at Turn- Mod. Advt., The shoe is made inside out and then turned. ‘Turn shoes’ they are called in some parts of the country.

1845 W. Youatt Dog vi. 118 Turnside, or Giddiness..a singular disease prevalent among cattle, but only occasionally seen in the dog.

1949 N.Y. Times 20 Mar. ii. 19/5 Mechanical turn signals must be standard equipment on all new motor vehicles sold in Minnesota after July 1.

1977 J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) vi. 79 He started the Plymouth, flicked on his turn signal,..then pulled into traffic.

1831 A. H. in Will. & Werwolf (1832) 6 That notion has become so inveterate, that a turnskin (versipellis) is become a common term of reproach.

1861 T. L. Peacock Gryll Grange xxxiv I felt that he was a turnskin, and I could never after taste bread with him.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. iii. 77 Men who are versipelles or turnskins have the actual faculty of jumping out of their skins, to become for a time wolves.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. v. 25 Vnder or vpon the side of your turne staires..your farmer shall haue a way into the gardens.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 259 The turn-stick is still a very useful instrument,..but its place in operation is now generally supplied by the screw tourniquet.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 286/2 Turn-Stitch, another name for Purl.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 504/2 Turn Stitch. Also known as Turning Stitch, used [in lace-making]..at the end of a row..is made with a Cloth Stitch and a half~Cloth Stitch as follows: Work a Cloth Stitch, give each pair of Bobbins one Twist to the left, put the middle left hand Bobbin over the middle right; lift the two pairs with each hand.

1893 E. Rosevear Text-bk. Needlework 405 Purl, Pearl, Seam, Rib, and Turn Stitch all mean the same thing.

1890 S. W. Baker Wild Beasts I. 153 The watcher will sit upon a low turn stool, that will enable him to rest in comfort.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 198 Apostrophe, or the turne tale.

?1556 E. P. in tr. T. Cranmer Confut. Verities Pref. sig. C ij (margin) The priestes for the most part wer double faced, turne tippettes and flattere[r]s.

1562 Bp. J. Pilkington Expos. Abdyas Pref. 14 All turntippets that turn with the worlde, and kepe their livings still, should have no office in Christs Church.

1893 T. H. Huxley Evol. & Ethics 7 A turn-to with a giant.

1909 Chron. London Mission. Soc. Aug. 150/2 This nine o'clock ‘turn-to’ whistle is also the signal for a girls' muster.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 2 Campani..pretends to have found a way to work great Optick Glasses with a Turne-tool, without any mould.

1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 268 Crosses, Holes, Hange-benches, Turntree, and Coes.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Eij If he once set on his Stoce and Turn~tree, and falls to drawing.

1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 74 The spindles of a turn-tree, or rope-barrel, for winding up ore in small tubs.

1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. ii. ii. 141 The old games of blind-man's-buff, turn-trencher, and forfeits..pursued in the evening fire-light.

1951 D. Thomas in World Rev. Oct. 66 Dolphins dive in their turnturtle dust.

1891 Cent. Dict. Turn-under.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 4/2 The back panel in particular is conspicuously attractive, by reason of..the ‘big turn-under’ from top to bottom, the very large side-sweep.

1672–3 in Welch Hist. Pewterers' Co. (1902) II. 145 [Richard Heath was summoned..for setting his] Turn Wheel to work on y^e mistery [by employing him to pour saudware and open a mould. A ‘turn-wheel’ was an unskilled labourer, usually a lad].

1816 T. Parker Ess. Turnpike Gate 18 The three posts in front of the turn~wicket should be sawed into octagons.