Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes a business of hunting for turtles or their eggs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who catches turtles or tortoises.
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- noun One who catches
turtles ortortoises . - noun video games One who
turtles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone whose occupation is hunting turtles
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus armed, the turtler sculls over the reef, striking the turtle either as it lies asleep on the bottom or as it rises to breathe.
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Although that reef offered in reality no place of safety, that was available to his party, Mulford felt it as a sort of relief, to be certain that it was not distant, possibly influenced by a vague hope that some passing wrecker or turtler might yet pick them up.
Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Still, we have seen neither wrecker nor turtler since we have been here; and that lessens the excellent chance you left
Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Huge turtler, I just really enjoy making a massive base and getting every upgrade before going on the offensive making me suck really bad online
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a small island about thirty leagues to the westward of Jamaica, where they took a small turtler, and so to the Havana, and from thence to the
Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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"Unless some wrecker, or turtler, fell in with him, and took him off.
Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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