turner
/ˈtɜrnər/
noun
- A person who operates a lathe, a machine that shapes wood or metal by rotating it against a cutting tool.
- The apprentice turner learned to make precise metal parts.
- My grandfather worked as a turner in a furniture factory.
- The turner carefully shaped the wooden leg for the table.
- A kitchen tool used for flipping food, such as pancakes or burgers; a spatula.
- She used a turner to flip the pancakes in the pan.
- A good turner makes it easy to flip eggs without breaking them.
- The chef grabbed a turner to lift the burger off the grill.
- A person who turns or changes something, especially in a specified way (e.g., a page-turner, a trick-turner).
- The gymnast was a skilled turner on the balance beam.
- That novel is a real page-turner; I couldn't put it down.
- He's a quick turner of phrases in his poetry.
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