cockleshell

• Dee's own boat was a mere cockleshell, incapable of carrying five men away, but Dee knew his neighbors well. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
• Besides, Kathy was gifted with that charming disposition which never objects to anything--anything, of course, that does not involve principle But it was soon found that, as the cockleshell had no rudder, and the intricacies they had to wind among were numerous, frequent directions and corrections were called for from the girl D'you know," said Nigel at last, "as I don't know where you want me to go to, it may be as well, after all, that you should row Very well," said Kathy, with another of her innocent smiles. —  Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
• When she quitted the Turks turned their guns on to our cockleshell, and although none of the shot came near us they still came quite near enough to interest the whole gallery of some thousands of bathing Tommies who, themselves safe in the dead ground under the cliff, were hugely amused to see their C.-in-C. having a hot time of it. —  Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
• Although the raft was tossed about like a cockleshell, it went through without injury, and none of the goods were displaced or harmed Following this came the severest kind of work. —  Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them
• "But, cockleshell or no cockleshell, she's big enough for me But, Captain dear, isn't there room enough for me, too?" —  Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel

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