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SPUR-SHELL

Definition: SPUR-SHELL

SPUR-SHELL

Noun

1. Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: SPUR-SHELL

Language Translations for "SPUR-SHELL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

踢马刺壳. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

박차 포탄. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ur-shellspay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SPUR-SHELL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-l-l-p-r-s-s-u"

-2 letters: hullers, plusher, plushes, pullers, pulsers, pushers.

-3 letters: huller, lusher, lushes, pluses, pulers, puller, pulser, pulses, purses, pusher, pushes, rhesus, rhuses, rushes, shells, shleps, slurps, spells, sprues, supers, ushers.

-4 letters: hells, helps, herls, hulls, hurls, lehrs, lures, plush, press, puler, pules, pulls, pulse, purls, purse, puses, rules, ruses, sells, shell, shlep, shuls, slues, slurp.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-l-l-p-r-s-s-u"
 

+3 letters: prothalluses.

 

+5 letters: superthrillers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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