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cockleshell
[ kok-uhl-shel ]
noun
- a shell of the cockle.
- a shell of some other mollusk, as the scallop.
- Nautical. any light or frail vessel.
cockleshell
/ ˈkɒkəlˌʃɛl /
noun
- the shell of the cockle
- any of the valves of the shells of certain other bivalve molluscs, such as the scallop
- any small light boat
- a badge worn by pilgrims
Word History and Origins
Origin of cockleshell1
Example Sentences
Never mind silver bells and cockleshells, Mary should have tossed dead fish to help her garden grown.
In another of the parodies, John was supposed to be polishing the cockleshell paving around the pond and hanging out the washing.
And next season, that settled, we can get back to people flaying their enemies, selling cockleshells to advance obscure revenge plots, romancing their siblings, and poisoning each other at weddings.
As does the surrounding lonely shoreline and saltmarsh, whose muddy tussocks hop with wading birds and whose beaches are composed, in part, of yellow cockleshells.
As a contemporary observed of him at the colonial office, he “exaggerated the importance of everything he touched. Every speck on the horizon, he assumed, would turn out to be a Cunarder, not a cockleshell.”
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