turner

plural turners

1. One who or that which turns.

   Everyone kept turning around and craning their necks to look at the gaps, and Miss Griffin gave all the turners and craners paralyzing stares whenever she caught their eye.

   2016, Robin Stevens, Murder Is Bad Manners, page 236

2. A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.
3. A kitchen utensil used for turning food.

   Synonyms: fish slice, spatula

4. biologyA variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
5. ball gamesA very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.

plural turners

1. hobbiesAn acrobat or gymnast, especially (historical) a member of the German Turnvereine, German-American gymnastic clubs that also served as nationalist political groups.

plural turners

1. historicalAn old Scottish copper coin worth two pence, issued by King James VI.

plural Turners

1. countableuncountableAn English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation.
2. countableuncountableA male given name.
3. A placename.
   1. countableuncountableA suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.
   4. countableuncountableFormer name of Tuttle, California.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Clay County, Indiana.
   6. countableuncountableA neighbourhood of Kansas City, Kansas.
   7. countableuncountableA town and census-designated place therein, in Androscoggin County, Maine.
   8. countableuncountableA township and village therein, in Arenac County, Michigan.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Blaine County, Montana.
   10. countableuncountableA city in Marion County, Oregon.
   11. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington.
   12. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
   13. countableuncountableOther townships in Minnesota, Oklahoma (2) and South Dakota.
   14. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Turner Township.
   15. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Turner County.

plural Turners

1. A person who has Turner syndrome.

   […] and that the chromatin-negative Turners are XO with 45 chromosomes.

   1960, Institute of Biology Journal

2. alternativeAlternative form of turner (“member of German-American nationalist gymnastic clubs”).