turner Meaning and Definition

1. n. cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food

2. n. one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope

3. n. a lathe operator

4. n. a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein

5. n. United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)

6. n. English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)

7. n. United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)

8. n. United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)