turn file (ternfil)

An instrument used by comb-makers in sharpening a kind of tool called a float. At the foot of that Hille, Melchisedeche, that was Kyng of Salem, in the turnynge of that Hille, mette Abraham in comynge azen from the Bataylle, whan he had slayn A by mel eche. Mandeville , Travels, p. 114. They [the ways] were... full of windings and intricate turnings . Coryat, Crudities, I. 92. I'll bear you Company as far as the next Turning . N. Bailey , tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 115. Every turning in the road showed the boundle forest below in some new point of view. Macaulay , in Trevelyan, I. 337. 4. Milit., a manœuver by which an enemy or a position is turned.-5. In obstet., the rectification of a malpresentation by bringing down the head or the feet. See version.-6. The art or practice of shaping objects by means of cutting-tools while the objects themselves are revolved rapidly on a lathe.-7. pl. The chips detached in the proce of turning.-8. In ceram., the operation of completing or rectifying the shape of a vase, or the like, before it is fired. This is done to give great accuracy of form, and avoid the least unevenne between opposite sides, and is very common in modern manufacture. 9. A turn; a movement back and forth. Many a tourneynge Upon the freshe gra e spryngnge. Rom. of the Rose , 1. 1407. 10. The part of any textile fabric, leather, or any similar material turned in or under, to avoid making a raw edge. - Turning in, the operation of bending a rope firmly around a deadeye in the score, also called strapping the deadeye. Turning up, in bookbinding, the taking of the round out of the back of a book by the use of trindles, to enable the forwarder to cut the book on the fore edge. It is done only on board-work. turning-bridge (ter'ning-brij), n. Same as turn bridge.