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Definition of Turtlebacks
1. turtleback [n] - See also: turtleback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turtlebacks
Literary usage of Turtlebacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in the word-play in Plautus. by University of Pennsylvania, Charles Jastrow Mendelsohn (1897)
""turtlebacks" made according to a system, with special knowledge of the grain of
the stone, and from material dug out of the earth, and " turtle- backs ..."
2. Researches Upon the Antiquity of Man in the Delaware Valley and the Eastern by Henry Chapman Mercer, Edward Drinker Cope, Richard H. Harte (1897)
""turtlebacks" made according to a system, with special knowledge of the grain of
the stone, and from material dug out of the earth, and " turtle- backs ..."
3. Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities: Part I. Introductory: The by William Henry Holmes (1919)
"That the same Indians had worked the riverside trimming-shop, carried thither
quarry "turtlebacks" for thinning, and at the same time made riverside ..."
4. Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology by Charles Staniland Wake (1894)
"We now learn that there are " turtlebacks " and ... of the quarry and turtlebacks
made at the riverside of material there at hand. And more digging tells us ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"And then, where are the hammer stones, and the chips, and the signs of use on
the " turtlebacks," and the thinned- down blades, which shall prove for what ..."
6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"... and the building was carried up by means of adobe 'turtlebacks,' masses of
clay averaging fifteen inches long, five inches wide and three and one- ..."
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