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pellacks

pellacks is the plural of pellack.

Meaning of pellack

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...

Questions about pellacks

What is pellacks the plural of?
Pellacks is the plural of pellack.

Words near pellacks in the dictionary

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

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