Turner

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Summary

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Origins

1. English and Scottish: occupational name for a maker of objects of wood, metal, or bone by turning on a lathe, from Anglo-Norman French torner (Old French tornier, Latin tornarius, a derivative of tornus ‘lathe’). The surname may also derive from any of various other senses of Middle English turn, for example a turnspit, a translator or interpreter, or a tumbler.
2. English: nickname for a fast runner, from Middle English turnen ‘to turn’ + ‘hare’.
3. English: occupational name for an official in charge of a tournament, Old French tornei (in origin akin to 1).

[Source: Ancestry.com]

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