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单词 turnway
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turnwayn.1

Etymology: < turn v. + way adv. away, after Greek ἀποστροϕή.
Rhetoric. Obsolete. rare—1.
= apostrophe n.1 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > breaking off to make exclamatory address
apostrophationa1529
apostrophe1533
turn-tale1589
turnway1589
aversion1611
apostrophism1866
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 199 When we haue runne a long race in our tale..we do sodainly flye out & either speake or exclaime at some other person or thing, and therefore the Greekes call such figure (as we do) the turnway or turnetale.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

turnwayn.2

/ˈtəːnweɪ/
Etymology: < turn n. + way n.1
A system or method of turns; in quot. 1897 attrib.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > spell of work or duty > system of shifts
turnway1897
swing1917
1897 S. Webb & B. Webb Industr. Democracy I. ii. ix. 437 The ‘turnway’ societies of the Thames watermen, for regulating the ‘turns’, or order in which the men plying at any particular ‘stairs’ serve the passengers who present themselves.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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