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turb Obs. exc. Hist.|tɜːb|
Forms: 4–6 turbe, 5–6, 9 tourbe, 7–9 turb.
[a. F. tourbe, OF. torbe (11th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) also turbe, ad. L. turba crowd.]
A crowd, swarm, heap; a troop; also, a group or clump of trees.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 188 In þe secund turbe was maister Coradyn. c1480St. Ursula vii, This holy turbe to Colen made theyr retourne. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xlix. 191 They came so fast by and by, And by so grete tourbes and hepes, that [etc.]. 1509Watson Ship of Fools xx. (1517) F ij, A grete turbe of foles fleeth to our shyppe. 1618Dekker Owles Almanack 21 Every heddge and quick⁓set, every knot, and turb of trees. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. (1737) 230 When the Turb is once accumulate. [1886Punch 20 Mar. 144 His front by nasiterge occult To serve from muscan turb his vult.] 1900A. Lang Hist. Scot. I. vi. 149 John Knox or Bothwell would come to his trial at the head of an armed tourbe, or gathering of partisans. |