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Cockleshell   Listen
Cockleshell

noun
1.
A small light flimsy boat.





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"Cockleshell" Quotes from Famous Books



... they were out on the open sea beyond the harbour in a cockleshell even frailer than Quiller's little craft which they had not been ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... could not last long. Suddenly, as the Atlantis swerved a little aside, a surge that towered above her loftiest deck rushed upon her. She was lifted like a cockleshell upon its crest, her huge hull spun around, and the next minute, with a crash that resounded above the roar of the maddened sea, she ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss


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