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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A name of the soft turtle, Dermatochelys (Sphargis) coriacea. See cut under leatherback.
  2. n. An abbreviation of Lutheran.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The leatherback turtle.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The leatherback.

Etymologies

  1. French (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “It's their word luth, for what we here in 'Merica would call a lute.”

    Fore, right!

  • ““Et nous jongleurs inutiles, frivoles joueurs de luth!” ...”

    The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays

  • “The flesh of the luth or leathery turtle (DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA) which diets on fish, crustacea, molluscs, radiates, and other animals, causes symptoms of poisoning; but the luth does not appear to be common in this part of the Pacific, though it occurs in”

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber

  • “Perhaps the poor Spaniards of those days happened in the first instance upon an ancient bull, or a hawks-bill, and tapped the poison gland, or a loggerhead or a luth, and came ever after to entertain, with right good cause, a holy terror of turtle, irrespective of species.”

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber

  • “Claude Perrault, [9] writing in the 18th century, states that "les modernes appellent notre luth barbiton”

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"

  • “Prends ton luth! prends ton luth! je ne peux plus me taire; 110”

    La Nuit de Mai

  • “Publick, having been very much delighted by the rehearsal of it; the music was done by Mr Cohaut who teaches my wife to play on the luth.”

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France

  • “I hope it will prove very agreeable to the Publick, having been very much delighted by the rehearsal of it; the music was done by Mr Cohaut who teaches my wife to play on the luth.”

    Baron d'Holbach

  • “Et nous jongleurs inutiles, frivoles joueurs de luth!" ...”

    Studies and Essays: Concerning Letters

  • “The flesh of the luth or leathery turtle (DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA) which diets on fish, crustacea, molluscs, radiates, and other animals, causes symptoms of poisoning; but the luth does not appear to be common in this part of the Pacific, though it occurs in Torres Straits.”

    Confessions of a Beachcomber

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