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Definition of Turpin
1. Noun. English highwayman (1706-1739).
Definition of Turpin
1. n. A land tortoise.
Definition of Turpin
1. Noun. (obsolete) A land tortoise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Turpin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Turpin
Literary usage of Turpin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"In addition to the relations between him and turpin, arising out of this employment,
there existed between them a warm personal affection. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"Old turpentine and French oil of turpentine are antidotes to phosphorus, forming
turpentine* phosphoric acid, which is inert- turpin (dc 800), archbishop of ..."
3. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1906)
"Its real author seems not to be clearly ascertained, but is supposed by some to
have been a Canon of Barcelona, who attributed his work to turpin.1 RPA Dozy ..."
4. Kentucky Opinions by Kentucky Court of Appeals, J. K. Roberts, Charles Middleton McDonald, Daniel Woolsey Crockett, Kentucky law reporter (1906)
"TARLETON turpin AND OTHERS. Opinion of the Court. Clarke county and live with or
near him, went to him and advised him to buy a tract of about twenty acres ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"The facts set forth in the bill were substantially as follows : On April 30,
1874, turpin, a citizen of the state of Pennsylvania, purchased from the ..."
6. A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs: With Illustrative Notes by William Hugh Logan, James Maidment (1869)
"RICHARD or (as he was more familiarly termed) "Dick turpin," who, for a number
of years about the beginning of last century, struck terror all over the ..."
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