stinkpots

The members of this family have inelegant names, such as stinkpots, stinky jims, and musk turtles.

Reptile families 2008

Most were pond and river turtles -- stinkpots, painteds, the occasional mud turtle -- caught at my uncle's farm in Connecticut.

Arthur Rosenfeld: Extinction in the Gulf 2010

Most were pond and river turtles -- stinkpots, painteds, the occasional mud turtle -- caught at my uncle's farm in Connecticut.

Arthur Rosenfeld: Extinction in the Gulf 2010

Now in the distance came another roar of engines which Bullock recognized at once: snowmobiles, stinkpots, as he called them contemptuously in his own dogsledding days.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

Now in the distance came another roar of engines which Bullock recognized at once: snowmobiles, stinkpots, as he called them contemptuously in his own dogsledding days.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

A week ago he'd been damning his coolies for useless, but now he was in a desperate fret for their welfare - they were to carry in the scaling ladders in the teeth of cannon, jingal-fire, spears, stinkpots and whatever else the Manchoos were hurling from the walls, and Temple, the ass, was determined to go in with them.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

A week ago he'd been damning his coolies for useless, but now he was in a desperate fret for their welfare — they were to carry in the scaling ladders in the teeth of cannon, jingal-fire, spears, stinkpots and whatever else the Manchoos were hurling from the walls, and Temple, the ass, was determined to go in with them.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

A week ago he'd been damning his coolies for useless, but now he was in a desperate fret for their welfare - they were to carry in the scaling ladders in the teeth of cannon, jingal-fire, spears, stinkpots and whatever else the Manchoos were hurling from the walls, and Temple, the ass, was determined to go in with them.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Pioneers, creeping up to the dead angle of the casemates, where the fire of the defenders could not reach them, directed smoke tubes and stinkpots against apertures in the citadel, filling the rooms with suffocating smoke and gases.

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

Finally, it was loaded with more kinds of missiles, in the way of what Augustine Birrell has called literary stinkpots, than were ever before rammed home in a single charge.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916