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Turnspit dog - Wikipedia
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.
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The extinct turnspit dog was a small cooking canine bred to run in a ...
*Working canine. They're a small working canine, bred to run in a hamster wheel attached to (not over) a roasting spit. They would often have ...
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TURNSPIT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. a : one that turns a spit; specifically : a small dog formerly used in a treadmill to turn a spit b : a roasting jack 2. a rotatable spit.
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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...
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Turnspit Dogs: The Rise And Fall Of The Vernepator Cur - NPR
The turnspit was bred especially to run on a wheel that turned meat so it would cook evenly. And that's how the turnspit got its other name: ...
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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. They had one job and it was to help roast meat over the ...
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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.
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The Sad, Strange History of Turnspit Dogs - Mental Floss
Turnspits were mongrels that most closely resembled modern-day terriers, dachshunds, and corgis, but usually with a considerably more miserable temperament.
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The turnspit dog: The extinct breed that once powered every kitchen ...
These kitchen dogs were no ordinary pets, but served a special purpose. They ran a wheel that helped their owners cook meat.
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Turnspit Tykes | The Junket
In the 16th and 17th centuries, canines were instead put to work turning spits. Lowly as it may sound, this was one of the most important – if least skilled – ...
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turnspit - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · A person employed in turning a spit for the purpose of roasting meat. · Synonym of roasting jack. · (archaic, derogatory, by extension) A person engaged ...
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A Breed You've Never Heard Of Is The Reason We Fight Animal ...
The Turnspit was bred to run in a wooden wheel that turned a roasting spit, cooking the meat evenly over an open fire.
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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...
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By the early 13th century this serjeanty's duties were described as being the "King's Turnspit."
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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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