urchins
noun
Meaning
- A mischievous child.
- A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
- 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.
- A hedgehog.
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