Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The leather back.
- noun Another kind of turtle, Trionyx mutica.
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Examples
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You can't go after leather-turtle from Beaufort unless you've got -- not seven-leagued boots, but seven-leagued fins. "
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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