Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something shaped like the back of a turtle, especially.
- noun Nautical An arched structure erected over the deck of a ship as protection from heavy seas.
- noun Archaeology A stone tool with a convex side.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech.: A name given to rounded formations suggesting the carapace of the tortoise or turtle.
- noun A rounded-back cover of any structure, as over the rear of a motorcar whose frame is designed for the rear seats of the tonneau construction, but in which only two front seats are installed.
- noun See the extract.
- noun A West Indian helmet-shell, Cassis tuberosa.
- noun Something having the shape of a turtle's back.
- noun An arched protection erected over the upper deck of a steamer at the bow, and often at the stern also, to guard against damage from the breaking on board of heavy seas; a whaleback.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Archæol.) A rude stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle.
- noun (Naut.) A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, so made to shed the seas quickly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything having the shape of a
turtle 's back (that is, its shell.) - noun A
library binding of amass market paperback with ageneric hardcover . - noun A common name for plants of the genus Psathyrotes of
annual andperennial forbs and lowsubshrubs native to dry areas ofsouthwestern North America .
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Bruno, a mix who's available for adoption, went organic in a pattern, wool knit "turtleback" sweater.
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So now besides the turtleback I also have a new accessory since the last 2 months.
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The reasonably small size and stiff turtleback cover make this dictionary just a little too large to fit in a pocket, but still readily portable.
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Pinehurst didn't leave much either, but that was more by design with turtleback greens that repel shots.
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They were pulled to each other as if drawn by some violent natural force, cataloguing snails and terrapins by day and spending their nights wrapped in each other in their own shell, their turtleback tent.
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Ross designed his turtleback greens so that a good shot was rewarded and a poor one penalized, rolling off into countless chipping areas that require a player to think about the type of shot and club to choose.
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With a few exceptions, the players liked the course, even if its turtleback greens and rolling terrain drove them to distraction at times.
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There were no easy pins, but Meeks says that was the turtleback greens at work, not his decisions.
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