▪ I. sea-turtle1
The black guillemot.
| 1678 Ray Willughby's Ornith. 326 The Greenland-Dove or Sea-Turtle: Columba Groenlandica dicta. 1752 J. Hill Hist. Anim. 446 The Colymbus with webbed feet, and three toes to each. The Sea-turtle. 1896 Newton Dict. Birds s.v. Turtle, Greenland Turtle and Sea-Turtle are sailors' names for the Black Guillemot. |
▪ II. sea-turtle2
A marine turtle belonging to the families Cheloniidæ or Dermochelyidæ.
| 1612 W. Strachey Trav. Virginia (1849) 195/1 A sea turtle, tuwcuppewk. 1764 Ann. Reg. 92 Lately taken..on the Devonshire coast..a sea-turtle, about seven feet long. 1860 Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. (1861) 357 Two pairs of paddles, very much like those of a sea-turtle. 1888 H. C. Bumpus in J. S. Kingsley Riverside Nat. Hist. III. 444 Sea-turtles are of considerable value as food. 1958 J. Carew Black Midas iii. 35 Mendoza had trapped a sea turtle and four men had to lift it into his donkey cart. |