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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In English law, the turn or circuit formerly made by a sheriff twice every year for the purpose of holding in each hundred the great courtleet of the county. The tourn long ago fell into disuse.
  • noun A spinning-wheel.
  • An obsolete form of turn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. A spinning wheel.
  • noun (O.Eng.Law) The sheriff's turn, or court.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A circuit made by a medieval English sheriff to the courts of his shire
  • noun UK, dialect, obsolete spinning wheel

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