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▪ I. turkis, turkes, -esse Chiefly, now only, Sc. dial.|ˈtɜːkɪs|
Forms: 4 thourkeys, Sc. 5–6 turkas, 6 turkass, turkes, turcase, turcas, 7 turkesse, 9 turkis.
[ad. OF. turcaise, -quaise, -queise, turquoise (14–15th c.), terquoise, truquaise, trucoise, mod.F. tricoises, fem. pl. of turcois, -queis, -quois Turkish; prop. tenailles turquoises, Turkish nippers.]
A pair of smith's pincers; pincers or nippers generally; forceps.
1390–1Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 35 Pro j pare de thourkeys, xij d. c1470Henry Wallace vi. 411 He gert a smyth, with his turkas rycht thar, Pow out his eyne. 1503–4Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 419 Ane turcas to tak out teith. 1513Douglas æneis viii. vii. 185 Wyth the grippand turkas [v.r. turkes] oft also The glowand lump thai turnit to and fro. 1591News fr. Scot. (1820) 33 His nailes upon all his fingers were riven and pulled off with an instrument called in Scottich a Turkas, which in England we call a pair of pincers. 1629Z. Boyd Last Battle 534 Like a tooth in the jaw, the deeper roote it hath, the more paine it causeth, when it is drawing out with the Turkesse. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxvii. (1873) 162 There's yersel', 't kens nae mair aboot the prenciples o' the struggle nor that turkis i' the smith's sheein [= shoeing] box.
▪ II. turkis(e
obs. or arch. ff. turquoise. |