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shelt-toad

shelt-toad is the alternative form of shield-toad.

Meaning of shield-toad

Noun

shield-toad (plural shield-toads)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) A turtle or tortoise.
    • But we already know that a shield-toad is a Frenchman, while the sun is Apollo's shield.2010, Hugh Peter McGrath, Michael Comenetz, Valery's Graveyard

Forms of shelt-toad

pluralshelt-toads

Questions about shelt-toad

What is shelt-toad the alternative form of?
Shelt-toad is the alternative form of shield-toad.

Words near shelt-toad in the dictionary

  1. shelpek
  2. Shelru
  3. Shelsley Beauchamp
  4. Shelsley Kings
  5. Shelswell
  6. shelt-toad
  7. shelt-toads
  8. Shelta
  9. shelter
  10. shelter belt
  11. shelter belts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shelt-toad (page history and authors); shield-toad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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