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COCKLESHELL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cockleshell mean?
• COCKLESHELL (noun)
The noun COCKLESHELL has 1 sense:
1. a small light flimsy boat
Familiarity information: COCKLESHELL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small light flimsy boat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cockleshell" is a kind of...):
small boat (a boat that is small)
Context examples
What queer fellows your fine painters must be, to think that anybody would venture their lives in such a shapeless old cockleshell as that?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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