Emily Dickinson Lexicon

turn (-s), n. [see turn, v.]

1. Detour; digression; roundabout way; winding path; meandering course; bend in the road; [fig.] disappointment; setback; letdown; reversal.
2. Retreat; [fig.] loss; death.
3. Chance; lot; appointed time.
4. Change of direction.
5. Fate; luck; opportunity.
6. A step off the ladder at the gallows.
7. [Fig.] form, cast, manner.
8. Manner of arranging words in a sentence.
9. One round of a rope or cord.
10. In mining a pit in some part of a drift.
11. In law the sherif's turn is a court of record, held by sherif twice a year in every hundred within his county [England.]