Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who makes a business of hunting for turtles or their eggs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who catches turtles or tortoises.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who catches turtles or tortoises.
  • noun video games One who turtles.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone whose occupation is hunting turtles

Etymologies

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turtle +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Thus armed, the turtler sculls over the reef, striking the turtle either as it lies asleep on the bottom or as it rises to breathe.

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • Although that reef offered in reality no place of safety, that was available to his party, Mulford felt it as a sort of relief, to be certain that it was not distant, possibly influenced by a vague hope that some passing wrecker or turtler might yet pick them up.

    Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Still, we have seen neither wrecker nor turtler since we have been here; and that lessens the excellent chance you left

    Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Huge turtler, I just really enjoy making a massive base and getting every upgrade before going on the offensive making me suck really bad online

    The Tech Report: News 2009

  • a small island about thirty leagues to the westward of Jamaica, where they took a small turtler, and so to the Havana, and from thence to the

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • "Unless some wrecker, or turtler, fell in with him, and took him off.

    Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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