Sentences with word «turnspit»
A "turnspit" refers to a person or a dog that was used to turn a rotating mechanism, like a spit, in order to cook meat over a fire. Full definition
According to Irish lore, Glen of Imaal Terriers were also used as turnspit dogs to turn meat over fires for cooking.
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In the 1850s, the use of turnspits in large commercial kitchens in America inspired the foundation of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).
At the mention of the word «wheel» several turnspit dogs, who had been brought to church as foot warmers, ran for the door.
You might be kind of glad turnspits and Dogo Cubanos aren't around anymore.
The smaller Glen of Imaal terriers allegedly were «turnspit dogs» who ran in exercise wheels that turned spits over kitchen fires.
Fore Street's interior surrounds a unique brick, and soapstone hearth consisting of a wood - burning oven, grill, and turnspit, visible from most tables.
Perhaps his most important job was as a turnspit dog, which meant walking on a treadmill for hours to turn meat over fires.
Turnspit Dog: The Turnspit Dog was a short - legged, long - bodied dog bred to run on a wheel, called a turnspit or dog wheel, to turn meat so that it would cook evenly.
According to legend the Glen of Imaal also has a unique task which it was expressly designed for: it was a turnspit dog.
The turnspit was a large wheel which, when paddled by the dog, would turn the spit over the hearth — a canine - propelled rotisserie, if you will.
For a while, it seemed like bulldogs would go the way of the turnspit — but they didn't.
«Turnspit dogs were viewed as kitchen utensils, as pieces of machinery rather than as dogs,» says [author Jan] Bondeson.
But turnspits were already a dying breed by then, because people could afford machines to turn their spit.
Bondeson also says that families would bring their turnspits to church on Sundays «because the dogs were useful as footwarmers.»
If the turnspit wasn't running fast enough on the job, you could throw a hot coal into its wheel to really light a fire under it, so to speak.
Tiny and industrious, turnspits were «essential» to any large 16th Century British kitchen.
One such dog is the turnspit.
Bondeson says just owning a turnspit became a «stigma of poverty.»
The Glen had the unique task of paddling a turnspit — a canine - propelled rotisserie — in its native country.
He comes from the rocky and relatively barren Glen area of Ireland, where he worked tirelessly as a ratter, badger and fox hunter, and also as a turnspit dog, turning the spit in the kitchen for hours on end to help prepare the family dinner.