noun
- the shell of a cockle, a type of small edible marine mollusk
- a small, light boat
Usage: informal
Examples
- Children collected cockleshells along the beach.
- The cockleshell had distinctive ridged patterns.
- She found a perfect cockleshell in the sand.
- The fisherman rowed his cockleshell to shore.
- They sailed across the bay in a tiny cockleshell.
- The cockleshells were scattered by the tide.