Chiefly Sc. Obs. [f. TURN v. + GRECE, GREE sb.1] A winding stair, as in a turret, etc. Also attrib.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IX. 511. Richard Wallace the turngreys [ed. 1570 Turngrece] weill has seyn; He folowit fast apon the portar keyn,… Tuk wp the port, and leit in all the layff.
1483. Cath. Angl., 397/2. A Turne grece, troclea.
1506–7. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., III. 366. Item for ane lok to the turngree dur in the Abbay, xiiij d.
1535. Coverdale, 1 Kings vi. 8. They might go vp to the myddest stacion by a turne grese.
1554. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1871), II. 296. To Thomas Hallis servand for paittelling and deichting of all the steppis of the turngryss of the tolbuith, viijd.
1600. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 353/1. De cellario sub inferiore gradu lie turnegres tenementi quondam M. Thome Marjoribankis.
