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Cockleshell   Listen
noun
Cockleshell  n.  
1.
One of the shells or valves of a cockle.
2.
A light boat. "To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters."





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"Cockleshell" Quotes from Famous Books



... rough and difficult to stand on deck, on account of the vessel being tossed about like a cockleshell, that Harry ...
— Facing the World • Horatio Alger
... would those two bronze statues dare to go to sea in such a cockleshell, eh? Have I given you ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... plain enough that the man was manoeuvring his cockleshell about, so as to get the cutter between it and the shore, and with pleasant visions in his mind of a lobster, crab, or some other fish to vary the monotony of the salt beef and pork, of which they had, in Hilary's thinking, far too much, he leaned over the side till the man allowed his ...
— In the King's Name - The Cruise of the "Kestrel" • George Manville Fenn


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