bottle turning

noun

, Furniture.

1. the turning of the legs of chairs, tables, etc., in manufacturing to give certain sections an ornamental, bottlelike form.

Example Sentences

Were one to bump into a Bengal tiger in the ravine behind the Bimini Baths, one could be no more surprised than was I to see a perfectly good quart thermos bottle turning and twisting in the surf of Cape Farewell at the southern extremity of Greenland.

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