[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To plant or crop (land) with turnips.
1789. Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2), II. 63. Was the ground turneped three years?
1854. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XV. II. 420. The land is given to couch if not turniped often.
2. To feed or fatten (sheep) on turnips.
1799. A. Young, Agric. Lincoln, 320. Shearling wethers; turniped by many, and sold in the wool.
1847. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VIII. II. 430. Those [sheep] in good condition, and off the best farms, are bought for turnipping. Ibid. (1868), Ser. II. IV. II. 350. Not a few ‘Penrith hoggs’ are turniped in Dumfries.
