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Turnit, Tournyt, ppl. adj. Also: turnyt, -ed, tornit, -ed. [ME and e.m.E. torned (a1325), turnyd (Prompt. Parv.), turned (1501).] a. Turned or fashioned on a lathe. b. Upturned. c. Reversed, turned in the opposite direction. d. ? In sense 4 of Turn v., applied to a reversal in attitude or behaviour.a. 1478–9 Acta Aud. 82/1.
For a turnyt chere iiij s.
1505 Exch. R. XII 673.
Ane tornit cher
1507 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 163.
Turnit
1507 Treas. Acc. III 384.
To Thom Gourlay, wricht, … to be the tournyt graith for the schip, xxviij s.
1513 Doug. vii vi 95.
This turnyt tre so all that berdles rowt Ferleis to se swa sleip and quhirl abowt
1513 Doug. ix x 67.
Bos schawmys of turnyt [Ruddim. torned] buschboun
1566 Prot. Bk. Thomas Johnsoun 101.
Ane turnit bed with ane draw bed under of plane tre
1621 Barcaldine Inv.
Ane standing bed of aik turnit work
1683 Inv. in Donibristle Mun. (Earl of Moray's MSS) 15 (9-10 May).
Sex turned chairs
b. 1513 Doug. viii vi 114 (Sm.).
The housis war lik a turnit barge
c. 1627 Banff Ann. II 212.
He sall … cast, win and hew that pairt of the schoir … and sall mak the samyn boundis frie, voyd, red, and leavell, till it be at sick deipnes that ane houris turnit flood sall overflow the … boundis
d. c1460 Consail Vys Man 222.
For sindry folk … fenȝeis frenschip oft with men, And quhen thai wat thar secretis all, Thai may theé gif a turuyt [? erron. for turnyt] fall

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