Hurtleturtled
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- hurtle: (vi) to move rapidly with a clashing sound; (vt) to hurl
- turn turtle: to turn over; to capsize
- Hure: (German) whore → Issy
- turtle: a turtle-dove → Issy
- 'turtle and eagle: turtles are carred to great heights and dropped by eagles to crack them open.
- evil turtles: turtles where sometimes taken as the personification of evil and contrasted with the cockrel in the west and the phoenix in china.