turtle
noun
any reptile of the order Testudines, comprising aquatic and terrestrial species having the trunk enclosed in a shell consisting of a dorsal carapace and a ventral plastron.
turtler
-
a word derived from
turtle.
Example Sentences
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It was occasionally visited by a passing fisherman, or turtler, and a few goat-herds, from the main-land, had come over to pasture some goats on the coarse grass.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
Unless some wrecker, or turtler, fell in with him, and took him off.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
Thus armed, the turtler sculls over the reef, striking the turtle either as it lies asleep on the bottom or as it rises to breathe.
From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various
