Cause to overturn from an upright or normal position. Synonyms:bowl over, overturn, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset."The clumsy customer turned over the vase" , "He tumped over his beer"
... degree, he called formally upon old Hickman, and asked his daughter's hand. Hickman was secretly well pleased that his daughter should marry a scholar and a gentleman like John Thornton, and a man too who could knock over his bird, or kill his trout in the lasher with any one. So after some decent hesitation he told him, that as soon as he got a living, good enough to support Jane as she had been accustomed to live, he might take her home with a father's ... — The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley Read full book for free!
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