tourn
English edit
Etymology edit
From Anglo-Norman. Doublet of turn.
Noun edit
tourn (plural tourns)
- (historical) A circuit made by a medieval English sheriff to the courts of his shire.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) A spinning wheel.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tourn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)