Word Meanings - TURNTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.

• Large-acred
  Possessing much land.
• Revolvency
  The act or state of revolving; revolution.
• Turningness
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.
• Turnstile
  A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Large-handed
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• Revolver
  One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.
• 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
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Large-hearted
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.
• 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.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

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