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tournery

tournery is the obsolete spelling of turnery.

Meaning of turnery

Noun

turnery (countable and uncountable, plural turneries)

  1. The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.
  2. 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.
  3. A place where lathework is carried out.

Forms of tournery

pluraltourneries

Questions about tournery

What is tournery the obsolete spelling of?
Tournery is the obsolete spelling of turnery.

Words near tournery in the dictionary

  1. tournedo
  2. tournedos
  3. tournedos Rossini
  4. Tournefortian
  5. tourneries
  6. tournery
  7. tournette
  8. tournettes
  9. tourney
  10. tourneyed
  11. tourneyer

Source and license

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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