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▸ noun:  (law) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An injury or wrong.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Twisted.
▸ adjective:  (British, dialectal) Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”)
▸ adjective:  Synonym of taut (“stretched tight; under tension”)
▸ adjective:  (nautical) Of a boat: watertight.
▸ noun:  (slang) Clipping of tortoise. [Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.]
▸ noun:  (slang) Clipping of tortoiseshell (“a domestic cat, guinea pig, rabbit, or other animal whose fur has black, brown, and yellow markings”); a tortie. [The horny, translucent, mottled covering of the carapace of the hawksbill turtle, used as a veneer etc.]

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