Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In shoe manufacturing, a machine for turning back the flap of the channel cut in the leather to leave it open for the sewing-machine; a channel-flap turner or opener. After sewing, the channel-flap is turned back and cemented down by a channel-laying machine.
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Fact is, when there's not a war going on, overseas news is a channel-turner.
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Fact is, when there's not a war going on, overseas news is a channel-turner.
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