left turning

Verb

left turn (third-person singular simple present left turns, present participle left turning, simple past and past participle left turned)

1. (intransitive) To turn ninety degrees to one's left, especially in response to a military command while marching.
   • Let them but remember Lewis the eleventh, who to a Clarke of the Exchequer, that came to be Lord Treaſurer, and had (for his device) repreſented himſelfe ſitting upon fortunes wheele: told him, hee might doe well to faſten it with a good ſtrong nayle, left turning about it, it might bring him...[1641, Ben[jamin] Johnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Timber: Or, Discoveries; Made vpon Men and Matter: […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 108–109

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