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Answer for the clue "Any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water ", 8 letters:
terrapin

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The Terrapin "4-ton amphibian" was a British-manufactured, amphibious armoured transport vehicle of the Second World War. It was first used in 1944 at Antwerp during the Battle of the Scheldt . The Terrapin served with the Royal Engineer assault teams of ...

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n. Any of several North American turtles, of the family Emydidae, that live in fresh or brackish water.

Usage examples of terrapin.

Jeter and Devin led Nicky Kix and his muscular entourage to their joint office, pushing aside plush Terrapin toys, edging past Terrapin arcade video games and cardboard movie-lobby standees.

Ralph floundered and lost continually, she gave him her attention, looking over his hand, and talking for him, and counting with so dexterous deceit that he escaped also, while Terrapin paid for the wine.

He even called the astute Terrapin a humbug, and toward midnight grew quarrelsome.

English governess in the Tuileries garden, and when Sunday came, with a rainy, windy, dismal evening, he went with Terrapin and Co.

It was Sammy Bong, an out-of-work chopsocky actor running around the TM backlot in a polyurethane-and-foam-rubber anamatronic Terrapin costume.

Terrapin toy ads and pasted onto a sheet of official Terrapin kiddie stationery.

Kix Stivaletta showed up as the private ambulance was hauling the deceased Terrapin away under the wide unblinking eyes of the surviving Terrapins, Aramis and Porthos.

It also cracked the arcade game screen and made a cheap plastic Terrapin alarm clock jangle discordantly.

Jeter Baird, eyeing the dead body partially stuffed into a small Transformed Tae Kwon Do Teen Terrapin kiddie wastebaket.

Devin hastily brought out their wallets and gave all their personal cash to their guardian Terrapin, Porthos.

Here too he found three terrapin killed but not eaten, and also some fish, more or less pecked.

And into the bag went the terrapin, and two plump fish, but slightly mutilated.

They entered the wood by a path Hazel had cut from the sea-shore, and viewed the devastation in Terrapin Wood.

The terrapin is a small turtle, found on the shores of Maryland and Virginia, out of which a very rich soup is made.

The man who did not eat twice of terrapin would be held in small repute, as the Londoner is held who at a city banquet does not partake of both thick and thin turtle.