Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of black or copper money current in Ireland in the reign of Edward III., coined at Tours and surreptitiously introduced. The circulation of turneys was prohibited under severe penalties.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
tourney .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Tourney.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
tourney . - verb Obsolete form of
tourney .
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Examples
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I am still going through it, but I have found POSSIBLY THE GREATEST HORROR YET on page 71 (73 in the flip/turney thing): # 805 (far right).
APED: "battle of the trident" hradzka 2009
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Furthermore, ordinances were made and set foorth for the safe keeping of the peace, so that such as would turney, neither by the waie in comming or going, or whilest the turnieng lasted, should violentlie take any thing to serue their necessarie vses, without paieng therefore to the owner according to the woorth, nor should doo iniurie to any man in any manner of wise.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed
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Prouided that what earle soeuer will turney there, shall giue to vs twentie markes, a baron ten marks, a knight that hath lands foure marks and he that hath no lands shall giue two marks.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed
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"Prisner at the bar," sed the turney, "Did you pay your subskripshun to the _Buster_ 'fore you checked your baggage thru to Hay dies?"
The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 Metta Victoria Fuller Victor 1858
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"Yer onher," sed the prosercutin turney, wot I reckernized as the ex-religio-jurnalistick edittur of a defunckted alliance noosepaper,
The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 Metta Victoria Fuller Victor 1858
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You can go to a lookout and learn to identify and count black vultures and turney vultures and watch for tagged vultures as part of a Hawk Mountain study.
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The trail was super sweet, twisty turney, dry, and FLAT as all hell.
Drunkcyclist.com 2010
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Call 466-2020 to reserve carts or eneter the turney.
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The terrain is filled with mountains which makes the roads twisty, turney adventures.
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Chadash is confident that with the help of CarbonCopyPro's turney business-in-a-box, he can make more money, more passively, than he was with comparable marketing systems that he was working with in the past.
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