▪ I. † ˈturneys Obs. rare—1.
[Prob. the same as Tournois. Cf. turner2.]
A ‘black money’ or base coin, made in Ireland in the 14th c.
| 1339 in Rymer Foedera (1708) V. 113 Dato nobis intelligi quod quidam, Homines Hibernici, quandam Nigram Monetam, vocatam Turneys, in partibus Hiberniæ fabricari fecerunt. |
▪ II. turneys
obs. var. Tournois.