turtle

«turtle» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: turtle-dove — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

turtle-dove

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A small wild dove, not a reptile. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "turtle" means a reptile with a shell. The old sense is the turtle-dove, a bird.

examples

• And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for; (Torah LEV.14.30, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! (Grimm's Fairy Stories) tree →
• And if his offering to the LORD be a burnt-offering of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons. (Torah LEV.1.14, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

turtle

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 95 (Torah 9, tales 86, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 10.8 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for;
• O deliver not the soul of Thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the life of Thy poor for ever.
• Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched; scientists think they remember its magnetic signature.
• The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.
• Sea turtles have lived in the oceans since the time of the dinosaurs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «turtle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.