Turkle

Etymology
Representing dialectal pronunciation.

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 A turtle.
 * 2) *1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 33:
 * I knew my father's nature so well, that I was certain his anger would hang on to him like a turkle does to a fisherman's toe [...].