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Meaning of 'urchin' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Urchin [ a.]
- Rough; pricking; piercing.
2 . Urchin [ n.]
- A hedgehog.
- A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
- A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
- A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
- One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.

Nearby Words:

urcelate urceolar urceole urceoli urceolus urchon

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