Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to get out of bed, thus vtr. to awaken someone.

1805		W. Irving in Life and Letters (1862) I 124: The next morning on turning out, I had the first glimpse of old England .
1821		‘An Amateur’ Real Life in London I 145: He was going to turn in, that there was fire enough to last till his wife turn’d out, which would be about six o’clock.
1852		A. Doten Journals 1849-1903 (1973) I 31 Oct. 132: Morning I turned out, feeling extremely unhappy and supremely miserable—Took three cocktails to make me feel better.
1862		G. Hand diary 13 Dec. pub. as Civil War in Apacheland (1996) 93: Reveille at five o’clock. Hard work to turn the boys out—snow, cold and everything froze.
1873		Holmes Co. Republican (OH) 15 May 1/6: ‘Turn out there lads, for I’m blowed if we ain’t shut in’.
1885		Derbshire Times 26 Dec. 6/6: When he finally ‘turned out’ [...] his body was a mass of cruel blisters.
1899		J. Flynt Tramping with Tramps 329: We had to turn out about half-past four in the morning.
1906		A.H. Lewis Confessions of a Detective 98: Mr. Sorg shook the sleeper rudely by the shoulder. ‘Turn out!’.
1912		J. London Smoke Bellew (1926) 60: Sit down an’ have some grub. The bosses ain’t turned out yet. [Ibid.] 88: ‘Come on!’ he roared. ‘Tumble out, you sleepers!’.
1934		T. Wood Cobbers 87: She’s the good old sort, that’d turn out in the middle of the night to give a man a hot meal and a dry shirt.
1982		P. Barker Union Street 2: ‘I don’t mind turning out.’ ‘Not much!’ ‘You’ve nothing to turn out to.’ ‘School.’.