Meaning & use
Cockleshells
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The ridged, fan-shaped shells of cockles, or small boats resembling them in shape and fragility.
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Children collected cockleshells along the tide line after the storm.
The old fisherman crossed the channel in nothing more than a cockleshell of a boat.
A note on using this word
The nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" famously mentions a garden decorated with "silver bells and cockleshells."
Words with a similar meaning
shells
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A small, fragile boat, especially one considered unsafe for rough water.
Crossing the strait in that cockleshell seemed like madness.
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