Usually means: Reptile with shell, slow-moving.
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  1. tortoise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tortoise: Merriam-Webster
  3. tortoise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tortoise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tortoise: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tortoise: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tortoise, tortoise: Wordnik
  8. tortoise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tortoise: Wiktionary
  10. tortoise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tortoise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tortoise: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Tortoise, tortoise: Dictionary.com
  14. tortoise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tortoise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tortoise (album), Tortoise (band), Tortoise (disambiguation), Tortoise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tortoise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tortoise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tortoise: Rhymezone
  20. Tortoise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tortoise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tortoise: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. tortoise: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tortoise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tortoise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. tortoise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. tortoise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tortoise: Medical dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tortoise: Easton Bible
  2. Tortoise: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tortoise: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. The Tortoise, tortoise: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
noun:  Synonym of cat (sense 11, a wheeled shelter)

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