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cockleshells

cockleshells is the plural of cockleshell.

Meaning of cockleshell

Noun

cockleshell (plural cockleshells)

  1. The shell of a cockle (or similar shell).
    • The moment land had disappeared, the great canoe seemed no larger than a cockleshell; the waves lapped dangerously near to the tops of the gunwales, all but toppling into the canoe; and that is the curious thing about Polynesian canoes: the water always laps just to the tops of the gunwales, no...1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 203
  2. A small, flimsy boat.

Questions about cockleshells

What is cockleshells the plural of?
Cockleshells is the plural of cockleshell.

Words near cockleshells in the dictionary

  1. cocklemen
  2. cockler
  3. cocklers
  4. cockles
  5. cockleshell
  6. cockleshells
  7. cockless
  8. cocklessness
  9. cocklestove
  10. cocklestoves
  11. cocklet

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