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Naval GunFire Support (with 5" to 16" shells).
Style of shoe popular in the late 1950's and early 1960's that came to a sharp and violent point. This was supposed to be reminiscent of the type of pin used to extract fresh cooked winkles from their shells. The shoes constricted the toes and no doubt cause immense and lasting damage to young feet as they were most popular with teenage boys along with 'drainpipe trousers. (ed: for those inland, Winkles are a small edible shellfish - a salt water snail in fact. Traditionally they are boiled and served 'fresh' in the vicinity of the place they were caught.).
One or more guns fired together, or the actual shells which have been fired.
In the Massachusetts Indian language, this word means white, or the color of shells. Â
Point of impact of a shell or salvo of shells.
A deck that has slight positive curvature when viewed in cross-section. The purpose of this curvature is usually to shed water, but in warships it also functions to make the deck more resistant to shells.
Bag of shells is Australian slang for a trifle, an unimportant object.
fired the 40mm shells, fit on the M-16.
Bullets
Little winkles in their shells, I think it is a sin, To pick the buggers out And eat them off a pin.
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Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
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Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
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An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
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Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.
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An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.
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One of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.
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Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
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Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.
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Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
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Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.
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A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell.
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One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
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A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.
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Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
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A spiral turn, as in certain shells.
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Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae. Some of the species are called also topshells.
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A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.
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A genus of pearly bivalve shells, numerous extinct species of which are characteristic of the Mesozoic rocks. A few living species exist on the coast of Australia.
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A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
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A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells, -- whence the name.
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