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A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.

• Turnip
  The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
• Turnstone
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of m
• TURNBULLSBLUE
  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.
• Anchor-hold
  The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds.
• Piecework
  Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.
• Stockholder
  One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
• Transversely
  In a transverse manner.
• Turnip-shell
  Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
• Turntable
  A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
• TURNIPSHELL
  Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
• Anchoritess
  An anchoress.
• Stockinet
  An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
• Turnix
  Any one of numerous species of birds belonging to Turnix or Hemipodius and allied genera of the family Turnicidae. These birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical cha
• Turnus
  A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind w
• TURNSICK
  Giddy. [Obs.] Bacon.
• Anchorless
  Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.
• Shankbeer
  See Schenkbeer.

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