tournery
tournery is the obsolete spelling of turnery.
Meaning of turnery
Noun
turnery (countable and uncountable, plural turneries)
- The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.
- Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe.
- August 20, 1761, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu, Esq.
Chairs of wood, the seats triangular, the backs, arms, and legs loaded with turnery.
- August 20, 1761, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu, Esq.
- A place where lathework is carried out.
Forms of tournery
| plural | tourneries |
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Questions about tournery
- What is tournery the obsolete spelling of?
- Tournery is the obsolete spelling of turnery.
Words near tournery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tournery (page history and authors); turnery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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