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Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..

Clough :: Clough (n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

Declination :: Declination (n.) The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

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..

Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song..

Wabble :: Wabble (v. i.) To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles..

Revenge :: Revenge (n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

Anfractuosity :: Anfractuosity (n.) A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity..

Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

Nyctitropic :: Nyctitropic (a.) Turning or bending at night into special positions.

Arbor :: Arbor (n.) A mandrel in lathe turning.

Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity..

Pronation :: Pronation (n.) The act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.

Obversion :: Obversion (n.) The act of turning toward or downward.

Whisket :: Whisket (n.) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.

Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel..

Lock :: Lock (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.

Reviving :: Reviving (a. & n.) Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.

Latin :: Latin (n.) An exercise in schools, consisting in turning English into Latin..

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