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▪ I. inturn, n.|ˈɪntɜːn|
[in adv. 11 d.]
†1. An inward turn, bend, or curve. Obs.
1690J. Banister in Phil. Trans. XVII. 671 And in the middle of the Entry on the Inturn of the Shell, grows a small white Tooth.
2. The turning in of the toes; also, a step in dancing.
1599Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. ii, (Dancing-Master) Now here's your in-turn, and your trick above ground. 1860Wraxall tr. Kohl's Wand. Lake Superior 5 The women turn their toes in slightly..a bent and heavily-laden body always produces an inturn of the feet.
†3. In wrestling: The act of putting a leg between the thighs of an opponent and lifting him up. Hence to get the inturn, to hold a person upon the inturn: to succeed in applying this device in wrestling. Also fig. Obs.
1602Carew Cornwall 76 a, Many Sleights and tricks appertaine hereunto..such are the Trip, fore-Trip, Inturne, the Faulx. 1652Benlowes Theoph. xi. xiii, If Bacchus th' Inturn gets, down conscience goes and all. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Pordage's Mystic Div. 90 An handfull it is, as it were, of wrastling Saincts, who..have got within Him and hold Him..upon the In-turn, and wil not let Him go, but there keep him. 1690D'Urfey Collin's Walk ii. 74 By Strength or'e buttock cross to hawl him, And with a trip i' th' Inturn maul him.
4. Curling. An inward turn of the elbow made in delivering a stone.
1890[see out-turn c]. 1897Encycl. Sport I. 262/1 The inturn is made when the curl is to be toward the right. 1923G. Rae Langsyne in Braefoot iv. 42, I want the inturn, an' I want ye here. Dinna lie back for ony sake. 1969R. Welsh Beginner's Guide Curling xi. 83 Almost all beginners are taught first to play the in-turn.
▪ II. † inˈturn, v. Obs. rare.
[f. in adv. + turn v., after L. invertĕre.]
trans. To invert, to turn round.
1573Twyne æneid xi. H h j b, Til moystie night..the heauen inturnd [invertit cœlum] and whole with starres replenisht had. |