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▪ I. † turnway1 Rhet. Obs. rare—1.
[f. turn v. + way adv. away, after Gr. ἀποστροϕή.]
= apostrophe1 1.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 245 When we haue runne a long race in our tale..we do sodainly flye out and either speake or exclaime at some other person or thing, and therefore the Greekes call such figure (as we do) the turnway or turnetale.
▪ II. turnway2|ˈtɜːnweɪ|
[f. turn n. + way n.]
A system or method of turns; in quot. attrib.
1897Webb Indust. Democ. I. ii. ix. 437 The ‘turnway’ societies of the Thames watermen, for regulating the ‘turns’, or order in which the men plying at any particular ‘stairs’ serve the passengers who present themselves. |