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单词 shellpad
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shellpadn.

Forms: Also 1500s schell-, 1500s–1600s shel-, 1700s shellpot.
Etymology: < shell n. + pad n.1 after (Middle) Low German schildpadde, Middle Dutch schiltpadde (Dutch schildpad), lit. ‘shield-toad’.
Obsolete.
A tortoise.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle
tortoise1398
shellpad1553
shell-paddock1565
land-turtle1697
land terrapin1709
land-tortoise1774
land chelonian1880
1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 10/1 A tortes or shell padde, testudo.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aiii/2 A Shelpad, testudo.
1790 Massachusetts Spy 24 June in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) A small turtle..known [in Virginia] by the name of shellpot.

Derivatives

shell-paddock n. Scottish Obsolete
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle
tortoise1398
shellpad1553
shell-paddock1565
land-turtle1697
land terrapin1709
land-tortoise1774
land chelonian1880
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 413 Ane penny..havand on the one syde ane palmetre crownit, ane schell padocke crepand up the schank of the samyn.
?a1595 Satyr upon Sir Niel Laing in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1709) ii. 54 Shell-padock, ill shapen Shit, Kid-bearded Gennet, all alike great.
a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 15 Testudo, a shel-paddock.
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