törn

Swedish[edit]

Borrowed from English turn. Attested since 1698.

törn c

A (received) hit, strike, blow.
Synonyms: smäll, stöt
- 1881, Carl Wilhelm Böttiger, Samlade skrifter, volume VI, page 51:
  Fartyget for på tredje dagen med sådan fart mot Vesterås hamn brygga, att bogsprötet gick af och skutan tog en törn, så att alla passagerarne ramlade baklänges. På rygg återsåg jag min gamla fädernestad.
  On the third day, the ship sailed with such speed towards Vesterå's harbor jetty that the bowsprit broke off and the schooner took a blow, so that all the passengers fell backwards. On my back I saw my old ancestral home again.
- 2021 November 19, Mats Löfström, “På Åland har förtroendet för regeringens beslutsfattande fått sig en rejäl törn [On Åland, trust in the government's decision-making has taken a serious hit]”, in Hufvudstadsbladet:
  På Åland har förtroendet för regeringens beslutsfattande tyvärr fått sig en rejäl törn under pandemin.
  On Åland, trust in the government's decision-making has unfortunately taken a serious hit during the pandemic.
(nautical) A turn, a spell (shift of work)
(chiefly nautical) A turn (of rope or the like, around a bollard or the like)
Synonym: varv
A corkscrew-like formation that can arise in rope twisted too hard (making it difficult to manage)