Someone whose job is to turn roasts on a spit over a fire.
"Down rushed the English in hot wrath, full a hundred men in all--cooks and turnspits, boys and varlets, and good men at arms: they came about Bertrand like bees, and cast great flint-stones to smite him down. An English squire raised his axe and smote one of Bertrand's comrades on the ear; wherewith he fell asleep on the highroad, never to wake again for all that men might cry in his ear."
Capture of the Castle of Fougeray, Picard de Cuvelier (1350).
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