A line thru a wavy line inverts it. Carcassi gives the wavy line as a
mordent, which by then was simply a double grace  note using the upper
auxiliary. To Bach, it would be the lower auxiliary, and it was only
used in descending.  In the interim, musicians lost patience with the
nonsense of mordents, inverted mordents, Pralltrills, Schnellers etc.,
all meaning the same thing, depending on whose book you read.

A line through a turn, one might safely  presume,  would do the same
thing, although a turn was inverted by standing it on end. (A turn, or
gruppetto, is a backward S lying on its side.)


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