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Lever :: Lever (n.) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it..

Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1..

Invertible :: Invertible (a.) Incapable of being turned or changed.

Dispose :: Dispose (v. t.) To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object..

Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..

Return :: Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift..

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool..

Torque :: Torque (n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis..

Orientation :: Orientation (n.) Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.

Clinch :: Clinch (v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail..

Siding :: Siding (n.) A side track, as a railroad; a turnout..

Idle :: Idle (superl.) Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours..

Deride :: Deride (v. t.) To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.

Digression :: Digression (n.) A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.

Heeltool :: Heeltool (n.) A tool used by turners in metal, having a bend forming a heel near the cutting end..

Standard :: Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally..

Frill :: Frill (v. t.) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap..

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.

Luff :: Luff (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.

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