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Meaning
Noun
●
A
mischievous
child.
●
In Children & People:
A
street urchin
, a
child
who
lives
, or
spends
most of their time, in the
street
s.
●
A
sea
urchin.
●
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.
●
A neutron-generating
device
that
triggered
the
nuclear
detonation
of the
earliest
plutonium
atomic
bombs.
●
In Erinaceids:
A hedgehog.
●
A
mischievous
elf
supposed
sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
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