Turn

To pass a rope or chain around a pin or bitts as a fastening for the former is known as catching or taking a turn. To turn turtle, to capsize. To turn in, to go to bed. To turn out, to get up. To turn in a dead-eye, to strop it with the end of a shroud. Turn of the tide, the change in the direction of its flow. Turn ahead, the slow forward movement of the propeller or paddle-wheels. Turn the glass, to capsize the sand-glass when heaving the log. Turn up all hands, to get all the crew on deck. Turn-to, to commence work.