tournery
English
editNoun
edittournery (plural tourneries)
- (obsolete) Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
- 1644 November 1 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for October 22 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
- In another roome are such rare tourneries in ivory as are not to be described for their curiosity
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tournery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)