Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old spelling of
turnip .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.), obsolete See
turnip .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
turnip .
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Examples
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It was in the occupation of an eminent flock-master and agriculturist, who kept some hundreds of hutched rabbits for the sake of their manure, which he applied to his turnep crop; added to this, their skins and carcasses were quite an item of profit, notwithstanding the care of them required an old man and boy, with a donkey and cart.
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845
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The turnep, too, befide the beetle and the tenthredo* has been peftered, this year, by a new enemy — - *
The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties: Including the Management of ... William 1796
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_text reads "throughout the the" _ he applied to his turnep crop
Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Lewis Falley Allen 1845
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I would have given it all for fixpenny-worth of turnep and carrot feed out of England, or for an handful of peas and beans, and a bottle of ink: As it was, I had 'not the leaft advantage by it, or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the Cave, in the wet feafon; and if I had had the drawer full of diamonds, it had been the fame cafe; and they had been of no manner of value to me, becaufe of no ufe,
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts ... 1790
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