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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 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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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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Dillegrout
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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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Suzanne Muldowney (born 1952), American performance artist
Haifa Underdogs, an American football club in the Israeli Football League
Turnspit
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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...
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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