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pellack

pellack noun: a porpoise.

Noun

pellack (plural pellacks)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A porpoise.
    • Did not the devil appear in the midst of the Tay, dressed in a priest's scapular, gambolling like a pellack amongst the waves1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and...

Forms of pellack

pluralpellacks

Origin of pellack

Compare Gaulish peileag.

Questions about pellack

What does pellack mean?
Pellack means a porpoise.
What part of speech is pellack?
Pellack is a noun.
What is the plural of pellack?
The plural of pellack is pellacks.

Words near pellack in the dictionary

  1. Pell's equations
  2. Pell-Fermat equation
  3. Pell-Fermat equations
  4. pell-mell
  5. Pella
  6. pellack
  7. pellacks
  8. pellage
  9. pellagra
  10. pellagragenic
  11. pellagras

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