cockle

• Our stout ship looked like a mere cockle-shell amid the mighty billows, which in huge watery walls rose half-way up the masts, threatening every instant to overwhelm her. —  The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific
• In person he was very large and fat--not unlike a cockle in shape: so round were his proportions, and so unwieldy, that it appeared much easier to roll him along from one place to another, than that he should walk. —  Olla Podrida
• The gigantic cockle was the only thing that presented. —  Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
• Some of the gigantic cockle was boiled, and cut into junks, lest any one should be inclined to eat. —  Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
• There was no Plimsoll mark in those days, and this cockle-shell of a vessel was literally loaded down to the scuppers. —  The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century

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