Word Meanings - STEERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
from Steer, v. Steering wheel , the wheel by means of which the rudder of a vessel is turned and the vessel is steered.
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- TURNSTONE
Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and - TURNINGNESS
The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney. - RUDDERHOLE
The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes. - TURNING
The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod - TURN
1. The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel. 2. Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the - TURNVEREIN
A company or association of gymnasts and athletes. - TURNHALLE
A building used as a school of gymnastics. - STEER
A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox. (more info) OHG. stior, Icel. stjorr, , Sw. tjur, Dan. tyr, Goth. stiur, Russ. tur', Pol. tur, Ir. & Gael. tarbh, - TURNSPIT
A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting. (more info) 1. One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office. His lordship - TURNSOLE
+ sole the sun, L. sol. See Turn, Solar, a., and cf. A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. The sunflower. A kind of spurge . The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora - TURN-BUCKLE
A loop or sleeve with a screw thread at one end and a swivel at the other, -- used for tightening a rod, stay, etc. A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp. - TURNCOAT
One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan. - WHEELBIRD
The European goatsucker. - TURNBULL'S BLUE
The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - TURNERY
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. Chairs of wood, the seats triangular, the backs, arms, and legs loaded with turnery. Walpole. - TURNTABLE
A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate. - WHEEL OF FORTUNE
A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules. - TURNDOWN
1. Capable of being turned down; specif. , designating, or pertaining to, an incandescent lamp with a small additional filament which can be made incandescent when only a small amount of light is required. 2. Made to wear with the upper part - WHEELWRIGHT
A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like. - RE-TURN
To turn again. - CATHERINE WHEEL
See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her - FOUR-WHEELER
A vehicle having four wheels. - NOCTURNAL
1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects. - SATURNISM
Plumbum. Quain. - DIUTURNAL
Of long continuance; lasting. Milton. - PELTON WHEEL
A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity. - OVERTURN
1. To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building. 2. To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow. 3. To overpower; to conquer. Milton. Syn. -- To demolish; overthrow. See Demolish. - TURN-SICK
Giddy. Bacon. - LECTURN
A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. . Fairholt. - RETURNLESS
Admitting no return. Chapman. - NOTTURNO
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