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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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... James or Santiago of Spain. Cp. 'Piers the Plowman,' i. 48 (with Prof. Skeat's note), Chaucer's Prologue, 465, and Southey's 'Pilgrim to Compostella,' valuable both for its poetic beauty and its ample notes. In regard to the cockleshell, Southey gives some important information in extracts from 'Anales de ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott



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