- 'shell-toad', tortoise. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland (1565) describes a penny on one side of which was a crowned palm tree with ane schell padocke crepand up the schank [trunk] and King James VI of Scotland refers to The slow-past [paced] shelpaddock in one of his poems.
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