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Turn-table. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Turn-table [f. TURN sb. + TABLE sb.]

1   1.  On a railway: A revolving platform turning on a central pivot, laid with rails connecting with adjacent tracks, for turning railway vehicles; a turn-plate.

2 1835.  Massachusetts Stat., 4 April. To unite any rail-road or rail-roads … by turn-tables or otherwise.

3 1838.  N. Wood, Railroads (ed. 3), 186. On each of these lines … circular turn-tables are placed, upon which the carriages are run.

4 1854.  John Bull, 2 Sept., 558/2. An engine having been accidentally put in motion while on the turn table, ran over a side wall, and rested on end in the street below.

5   2.  A revolving platform, table, stand, or disk of various kinds: see quots.; spec. (a) a rotating disk on which microscope slides are held for tracing the circular cement cells in which specimens are placed for examination; (b) see quot. 1889; (c) a turning device allowing a photographic camera to rotate on the stand or tripod; (d) a rotating plate-glass show stand used in shop-windows (Funk’s Stand. Dict., 1895).

6 1865.  Morn. Star, 2 Sept. The burial board … determined on placing a stand, or what is called a ‘turn-table,’ in the church, and also one in the chapel [for use at funerals].

7 1867.  J. Hogg, Microsc., I. iii. 254. The little box contains:—Shadbolts turn-table, brass table [etc.].

8 1887.  T. A. Trollope, What I remember, II. xv. 279. His food … is passed in to him by a little turntable made in the wall.

9 1889.  Welch, Text Bk. Naval Archit., v. 79. The four heavy guns are carried on revolving turntables in two fixed armoured redoubts or barbettes.

10 1892.  Photogr. Ann., II. p. cxci. A special form of Turntable is fixed to the Camera, to which the legs may be quickly attached…. The centre of the Turntable is cut away.

11   3.  attrib., as turn-table ladder, stack.

12 1893.  Nation (N. Y.), 13 July, 28/3. At the Columbian Fair there is a turn-table stack of official publications.

13 1912.  Times, 19 Dec., 12/6. A horsed escape, a fire engine, a turn-table ladder, and ten men turned out from the Theobald’s-road fire station.

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