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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 boatplay

  Familiarity information: COCKLESHELL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COCKLESHELL (noun)


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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