Crossword clues for turtleback
turtleback
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turtleback \Tur"tle*back`\, n.
(Arch[ae]ol.) A rude stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle.
(Naut.) A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, so made to shed the seas quickly.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything having the shape of a turtle's back (that is, its shell). 2 (cx nautical English) A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, designed to shed seawater quickly. 3 A primitive stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle. 4 A library binding of a mass-market paperback with a generic hardcover. 5 Any plant of the genus ''Psathyrotes'' of annual and perennial forbs and low subshrubs native to dry areas of southwestern North America.
Usage examples of "turtleback".
God knows I wanted to go to Turtleback Lane as soon as John Cullum told us about it, but I thought we had to see the writer, and talk to him.
Eddie dropped the transmission back into Drive and got the Ford rolling toward Turtleback Lane.
Pyramids of Egypt, the marketplace in old Tangiers, maybe an island off the coast of Formosa, or Turtleback Lane in Lovell on a thunderstruck afternoon in the summer of 1977.
When Eddie fell silent, Roland told of meeting Chevin ofChayven on their way to Turtleback Lane.
But that was Turtleback Lane right up ahead, and Turtleback was where these boys wanted to go.
That might give him time to get off Route 1 and back onto Turtleback Lane.
She swung the I-H into the middle of Turtleback Lane, then punched the clutch and yanked the gearshift into Third.
This walk returns him to his house by way of the north end of Turtleback Lane, and is four miles.
Route 7 before I turn back into the relatively sheltered environs of Turtleback Lane.
Land cruisers were hull-up now, their own screen of turtleback destroyers lunging ahead.
The actinic light showed it all too clearly: the turtleback forward deck and four billowing smokestacks, and the waves curling back from the cruel knife bows looming over his boat.
And he faced not only the parade of mourners and the military bands, not only the whining gun-carrier with the flag-draped teak coffin mounted on its turtleback in place of the usual automatic cannon, but also the lake, the mountains, and the April sky.
Lovell and the house on Turtleback Lane this afternoon Owen will join us in a day or two, he sez.
I almost had to dive into the ditch this afternoon to avoid a guy in a van swerving from side to side, pretty obviously drunk on the last part of Route 7 before I turn back into the relatively sheltered environs of Turtleback Lane.
Ronald was given a push in the turtleback which almost knocked him off his undercarriage.