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turnagain, n. (a.)|ˈtɜːnəgɛn, -əgeɪn|
[f. the verbal phr. turn again (turn v. 66).]
†1. A turning again or about; a revolution; a winding or deviation. Obs.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde i. x. (1634) 34 The..vaines infinitely intricate and writhed with a thousand revolutions or turnagaines. 1587Golding De Mornay xxv. (1592) 380 Moyses in leading the people of Israell through so many turnagaines.
†b. That which turns back an advance. Obs.
1630R. Johnson's Kindg. & Commw. 43 Mountaines are natures bulwarkes..; the Retreats they are of the oppressed, the scornes and turne-againes of victorious Armies. 1642Rogers Naaman 252 Why then fall there out so many turnagaines in the lives of the best?
2. A device in the bobbin-net machine.
1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxxiii. (ed. 3) 349 An improvement in a particular part of such machines, called a turn-again.
3. = antistrophe.
1871Browning Balaust. 214 Sing them a strophe, with the turn-again, Down to the verse that ends all, proverb-like.
†4. attrib. or as adj. in turn-again alley, lane, a blind alley, a cul-de-sac; also, a winding or crooked lane. Obs.
1531Tindale Expos. 1 John Prol. (1537) 5 It is become a turne-agayne lane unto them, which they can not go thorow. 1624Heywood Gunaik. v. 256 A turne-againe-lane, that had no passage through. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) I. 56 [In Scotland] A little court or turn-again alley, is a closs. 1807Antiq. Rep. I. 346 It was Friar Richard's ill fate to take into a turn-again lane, that had no passage through. |