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Definition of Turtleback
1. n. A rude stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle.
Definition of Turtleback
1. Noun. Anything having the shape of a turtle's back (that is, its shell.) ¹
2. Noun. A library binding of a mass market paperback with a generic hardcover. ¹
3. Noun. A common name for plants of the genus ''Psathyrotes'' of annual and perennial forbs and low subshrubs native to dry areas of southwestern North America. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Turtleback
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turtleback
Literary usage of Turtleback
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"It was the quarry " turtleback " of the pot making stone polishing Indian, ...
The " turtleback" was not the neglected brother of all chipped stone tools. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"7) to the "turtleback." and from the " turtleback " to the thin, leaf-shaped
blank, and thence to the spear or finished implement, represents the necessary ..."
3. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1900)
"Does the turtleback type of boat so consistenly followed abroad and adopted on
the Gushing, Ericsson, Foote class, etc., make a better sea boat than the ..."
4. Studies in the word-play in Plautus. by University of Pennsylvania, Charles Jastrow Mendelsohn (1897)
"... of Glacial Age under a bluff at Little Falls, Minnesota; but Mr. WH Holmes,
who cut a trench for forty feet into the bluff on the "turtleback "level, ..."
5. Researches Upon the Antiquity of Man in the Delaware Valley and the Eastern by Henry Chapman Mercer, Edward Drinker Cope, Richard H. Harte (1897)
"Miss FE Babbitt, in 1880, found quartzite, " turtleback ... but Mr. WH Holmes,
who cut a trench for forty feet into the bluff on the "turtleback" level, ..."
6. The Building of a Wooden Ship by Charles Gerard Davis, Thomas William Clarke, Frank Steel Drown (1918)
"turtleback—a covering which decks over the extreme forward or after part of the
upper ... The turtleback commences at the bulwarks rail and rounds up aft or ..."
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