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smeller n Cp OED ~ 3 'esp one of the whiskers of a cat' for sense 1.
   1 Whisker of a seal (1925 Dial Notes v, 342).
   1924 ENGLAND 231 As a souvenir I plucked out one of the [dog seal's] whiskers—'smellers,' the men call them. A peculiar, horn-like structure it was, somewhat corrugated, and of a peculiar gray-brown tint with darker brown spots.
   2 Mobile feeler of a lobster (P 77-74).

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