turm

turm (plural turms)

1. (obsolete) A group of people, especially a military unit of cavalrymen.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the Fourth”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 61–66, page 81:

     Thence to the gates caſt round thine eye, and ſee / What conflux iſſuing forth, or entring in: / Pretors, Proconſuls to thir Provinces / Haſting or on return, in robes of State; / Lictors and rods the enſigns of thir power; / Legions and Cohorts, turmes of horſe and wings: […]

• turm at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “turm” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.