11. A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
12. (Mining)
Defn: A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
13. (Eng. Law)
Defn: A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county. Blount.
14. pl. (Med.)
Defn: Monthly courses; menses. [Colloq.]
15. (Mus.)
Defn: An embellishment or grace (marked thus, By turns. (a) One after
another; alternately; in succession. (b) At intervals. "[They] feel
by turns the bitter change." Milton.
— In turn, in due order of succession.
— To a turn, exactly; perfectly; as, done to a turn; — a phrase
alluding to the practice of cooking on a revolving spit.
— To take turns, to alternate; to succeed one another in due order.
— Turn and turn about, by equal alternating periods of service or
duty; by turns.
— Turn bench, a simple portable lathe, used on a bench by clock
makers and watchmakers.
— Turn buckle. See Turnbuckle, in Vocabulary.
— Turn cap, a sort of chimney cap which turns round with the wind
so as to present its opening to the leeward. G. Francis.
— Turn of life (Med.), change of life. See under Change.
— Turn screw, a screw driver.
TURNBROACH
Turn"broach`, n.