Usage examples (34)

• Then, at last, Alberich, his mother, and the wretched little scullery maid and turnspit boy.
• The picture above is of Whiskey, the last surviving specimen of a turnspit dog, albeit stuffed.
• I showed them my economical furnace, my turnspit by clock – work, my roasting apparatus, and my vaporiser.
• There is even a sort of turnspit Selenite, very common, whose duty and only delight it is to apply the motive power for various small appliances.