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turnspit
turnspit (ˈtɜːnspɪt) [f. turn v. + spit n.; cf. turnbroach.] 1. A dog kept to turn the roasting-spit by running within a kind of tread-wheel connected with it; a turnspit dog. Also fig.1576 Fleming tr. Caius' Dogs (1880) 35 A certaine dogge..when any meate is to bee roasted they go into a wheele..tu... Oxford English Dictionary
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Turnspit dog
The turnspit dog is an extinct short-legged, long-bodied dog bred to run on a wheel, called a turnspit or dog wheel, to turn meat. Queen Victoria kept retired turnspit dogs as pets. wikipedia.org
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turnbroach
turnbroach arch. (ˈtɜːnbrəʊtʃ) [f. turn v. + broach n.1] = turnspit 2, 3. Also attrib. or adj.14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 619/1 Verugirus, a turnebroche. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 52 A turne-broche, a boy for hogge at Ware, With loury face, noddyng and slombryng. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII... Oxford English Dictionary
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Dillegrout
By the early 13th century this serjeanty's duties were described as being the "King's Turnspit." wikipedia.org
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Pets | HowStuffWorks
Turnspit Dogs: The Elizabethan Kitchen Gadget Bred to Cook Meat. Turnspit dogs were a distinct breed of working dogs in the late 15th-18th centuries. Their job was to run on a wheel designed to turn meat roasting over a fireplace spit. And they had to do it all day.
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galopin
† galopin Obs. Also 6–7 gal(l)apine, gallepyn, gallopin. [a. F. galopin, f. galoper to gallop.] A turnspit; an errand-boy; a page.1567 in G. Chalmers Life Mary Q. Scots (1818) I. 177 Christell Lamb, gallepyn, in the kitching. 1578 Househ. Ord. (1790) 252 Gallapines; apparell for them of the hall, ky... Oxford English Dictionary
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Roasting jack
It can also be called a spit jack, a spit engine or a turnspit, although this name can also refer to a human turning the spit, or a turnspit dog. wikipedia.org
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haster
haster dial. (ˈheɪstə(r)) [f. haste v. + -er; but cf. OF. hasteur turnspit, s.v. hasteler, and see hastery.] = hastener 2.1829 Hunter Hallamsh. Gloss. 48 (Hall.) Haster, a tin meat-screen, to reflect the heat while the operation of roasting is going on. 1839 A. Bywater Sheffield Dial. (1877) 34 Shoo... Oxford English Dictionary
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Helena Tattermuschová
In Dvořák’s operas, she was the kitchen boy Turnspit in Rusalka and the schoolmaster’s daughter Terinka in The Jacobin. wikipedia.org
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Underdog (disambiguation)
Helpline commercials Suzanne Muldowney (born 1952), American performance artist Haifa Underdogs, an American football club in the Israeli Football League Turnspit wikipedia.org
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wheeler
wheeler (ˈhwiːlə(r)) Also 4 whelere, 5–6 wheler. [f. wheel n. and v. + -er1.] I. Senses derived from the n. † 1. wheeler dog, ? orig. a turnspit dog; transf. a roasting-jack or similar instrument. Obs. rare.1379 Will of Carter (Comm. Crt. London), Vnum instrumentum vocatum a whelere dogge. 2. A whee... Oxford English Dictionary
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Kateřina Jalovcová
Dalila, Kate in Dvořák's The Devil and Kate, Meg Page in Verdi's Falstaff, Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, the Shepherdess in Janáček's Jenůfa, and Turnspit wikipedia.org
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Animal engine
See also Experiment (horse powered boat) Gin gang Horse mill Horse engine Persian well Treadwheel Turnspit dog Books Animal Powered Machines, J. wikipedia.org
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Robin Smith (climber)
His partnership with Dougal Haston is probably the most well known, resulting in routes such as Gob on Carnmore in Wester Ross in April 1960 and Turnspit wikipedia.org
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Pamela Gillilan
The turnspit dog: poems. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1993. Woodcuts by Charlotte Cory. All-steel traveller: new & selected poems. wikipedia.org
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