English edit

Etymology edit

turn +‎ wrest?

Noun edit

turnwrest (plural turnwrests)

  1. (UK, historical) A cumbersome kind of plough formerly used in England, especially in Kent.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 turnwrest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)