Meaning Of Urchin

n.

A hedgehog.

n.

A sea urchin. See Sea urchin.

n.

A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.

n.

A pert or roguish child; -- now commonly used only of a boy.

n.

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.

a.

Rough; pricking; piercing.