"table-turning" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out communications from spirits."
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        "(parapsychology) The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out communications from spirits."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "table-tipping"
        }
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        "uncountable"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, David Keen, Conflict & Collusion in Sierra Leone, page 62",
          "text": "Fantasies of table-turning and revenge seem to be commonplace in history; but war gives extra space for their enactment, and widespread weaponry also makes them more likely to be lethal […]",
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        "The act of turning the tables; a reversal or revenge."
      ],
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          "reversal",
          "reversal"
        ],
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          "revenge",
          "revenge"
        ]
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        "(idiomatic) The act of turning the tables; a reversal or revenge."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
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  "word": "table-turning"
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        "The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out communications from spirits."
      ],
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        "(parapsychology) The practice, at a séance, of the participants sitting around a table with their hands upon it, waiting for it to rotate and spell out communications from spirits."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "table-tipping"
        }
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        "The act of turning the tables; a reversal or revenge."
      ],
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          "reversal",
          "reversal"
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        "(idiomatic) The act of turning the tables; a reversal or revenge."
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