Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to a torse.
  • noun See torsel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Carp.) A torsel.

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  • noun Alternative form of torsel.

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Examples

  • The ghastly condition of the maimed, truncated cadaver, its upper torsal region embrued in gore, was in itself profoundly appalling.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • A shudder of gladness runs in her bones and torsal fiber: 5

    Poppies 1916

  • A shudder of gladness runs in her bones and torsal fiber:

    Chicago Poems 1916

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