urchin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A hedgehog.
2. isim A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.

   “We'll dress [them] like urchins, ouphes, and fairies.”

3. isim A mischievous child.

   “And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family. For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.”

4. isim A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.

   “And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes / Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.”

5. isim A sea urchin.
6. isim 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.

   “Here we have a carding-engine, with the drum surmounted with urchin or squirrel cards[…]”

7. isim A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.