Home › Words › T › turnbackturnbackturnback means part of a garment that is turned back.EtymologyDeverbal from turn back.nounPart of a garment that is turned back.The turning back of a weaver around another element.e.g.“Most basketmakers make their turnbacks in a particular section of the weaving on the sides or in the middle of the basket.” — 1991, Rachel Nash Law, Cynthia Wieboldt Taylor, Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down the Basket, page 86:The act of turning back a boat containing immigrants.The strap from the hames to the hip-strap, on a horse.A place, e.g. on a railway, where vehicles can reverse direction, i.e. turn back.e.g.“Removal of one set of train turnbacks also makes more efficient use of infrastructure and reduces peak loads at interchange stations.” — 2023 June 14, David Clough, “Tram-trains are making tracks...”, in RAIL, number 985, page 54:A cadet at a military academy who fails a class and has to retake it.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).