Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of urchin.
Examples
“Anything served them, that is, the urchins, as a pretence for a fray, or, Dorically speaking, a BICKER; every street and close was at feud with its neighbour; the lads of the school were at feud with the young men of the college, whom they pelted in winter with snow, and in summer with stones; and then the feud between the old and new town!”
“Anything served them, that is, the urchins, as a pretence for a fray, or, Dorically speaking, a _bicker_; every street and close was at feud with its neighbour; the lads of the school were at feud with the young men of the college, whom they pelted in winter with snow, and in summer with stones; and then the feud between the Old and New Town!”
“Anything served them, that is, the urchins, as a pretence for a fray, or, Dorically speaking, a _bicker_; every street and close was at feud with its neighbour; the lads of the school were at feud with the young men of the college, whom they pelted in winter with snow, and in summer with stones; and then the feud between the old and new town!”
“Adolf Hitler was well known for being chauffeur-driven around Vienna, catcalling the urchins and sometimes even the proper ladies!”
“Can't wait to try just need to find the sea urchins.”
“But still, nothing beats the flavor of urchins just out of the water.”
“Nihal, it would be interesting to hear if you ask around in your town whether anyone ate urchins.”
“Oh Peter, you REALLY need to try urchins; they're amazing.”
“You know I never knew sea urchins were edible till I saw them on your post (Sea Urchins with Tips on How to Open Them) when I was going through your blog the first time I saw it.”
“Here are directions, with photographs, for opening sea urchins.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘urchins’.
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Spinning
This list is basically an excuse for me to list the word wool four times in a row.
wool, spin, spinning, cotton, scribble, scribbler, scribbling, spindle whorl, spindlewhorl, card, card-clothing, carding-machine and 68 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for urchins.
ruzuzu "The principle of the wool-carding machine is identical with that of the cotton-carding machine, and it is chiefly distinguished from the latter by a great number of small cylinders called urchins, which work in pairs and are called workers and cleaners."
--from the Century Dictionary definition for carding-machine Jan 19, 2011