right turningn.

1657 J. Rowland tr. J. Johnstone Hist. Wonderful Things of Nature ix. v. 292 Oft times the young one coming forth there are eggs yet raw in the matrix,..and some of them are contained in the right turning of the matrix some in the left.

1837 C. E. Browne Let. June in Lett. from Ireland (1838) i. 14 The frequent queries of bewildered pedestrians, at a loss whether the right turning or the left will sooner bring them to their destination.

1864 E. Sargent Peculiar xii. 131 I ran leftward with all my speed... I then turned and ran down the right turning.

1967 Times 21 Oct. 9/5 Take a turning to the right, virtually the first right turning since Xavantina.

2009 Argus (Sussex) (Nexis) 20 June Turn left along the drive for 100 yards and, just before a house called Murrells, take the right turning at a signed three-way junction.

1867 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 681/1 ‘O, we will give you directions, so that you cannot miss them,’ said the host; but he laid before me such a confusion of right turnings and left turnings, ups and downs, that I became speedily bewildered.

1904 Proc. Royal Philos. Soc. Glasgow 35 39 The dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet were converted into left and right turnings of the needle.

1956 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 5 365 In the week after the completion of the junction, about 15 to 20% of the right-turnings were being made incorrectly.

1996 W. Franke Dante's Interpretive Journey ii. 107 A code of left and right turnings is consistently applied throughout the Inferno... In the course of their physical descent through the Inferno, Dante and Virgil always turn to the left.