What is "turnings"

Usage examples of "turnings".

This was all I wanted to know, so I said no more, but took note of the various turnings, that I might be able to find my way alone the next day.

He sails all along the canal, gets out of it, takes several turnings, and in a quarter of an hour, we reach Saint George where Balbi lands our prisoners, who are delighted to find themselves at liberty.

We went by gondola, and after a thousand turnings among the small canals we got into the Grand Canal, and landed at the prison quay.

Even the miners complained that the smell made them sick, so eventually a pair of workers dumped chalk in the hollow and after a few turnings swept it up again, but for many turnings afterward he shed chalk dust like skin and traced it into the creases of his body and rubbed it out of his hair, although in truth any substance in his hair was a relief against the crawling lice and the endless scratching.

It seemed to him then, momentarily, that all the wrong 201 turnings he had taken linked back to the same time, and the same place.