meaning of urchin

1. A hedgehog.
2.
A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.
3.
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
4.
A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.
5.
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
6.
Rough; pricking; piercing.
7.
poor and often mischievous city child


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