A mischievous child.
A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
A hedgehog.
A sea urchin.
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
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 neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
A small mammal, of the family Erinaceidae or subfamily Erinaceinae (pl=s, the latter characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked.)
Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog.
A type of moveable military barricade made from crossed logs or steel bars, laced with barbed wire, used to damage or impede tanks and vehicles; Czech hedgehog.
A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.
A type of chocolate cake (or slice), somewhat similar to an American brownie.
A form of dredging machine.
Certain flowering plants with parts resembling a member of family Erinaceidae
, the pods of which are armed with short spines.
A kind of electrical transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance.
A way of serving food at a party, consisting of a half melon or potato etc. with individual cocktail sticks of cheese and pineapple stuck into it.
To make use of a hedgehog barricade as a defensive maneuver.
To array with spiky projections like the quills of a hedgehog.
To curl up into a defensive ball.
