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Webster 1913 Edition


Tourn

Tourn

,
Noun.
[See
Turn
]
1.
A spinning wheel.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
(O.Eng.Law)
The sheriff’s turn, or court.

Definition 2024


tourn

tourn

English

Noun

tourn (plural tourns)

  1. A circuit made by a medieval English sheriff to the courts of his shire.
  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A spinning wheel.