shell

• Back to that shell: the shell is a self-assembling material. —  Janine Benyus shares nature's designs
• At that moment Bix saw a KV-I fire its gun, but the shell was apparently not meant for him, as it whizzed past behind the corner of a house farther to the right. —  Panzer Aces
• Resurfacing with something like sand or a shell is a clear indication to the other divers on the boat that you were actually successful in reaching the bottom. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
• Why the shell was there no one could conjecture. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
• Under ordinary circumstances it remains firmly fixed in position; but when it becomes necessary to fire a torpedo-shell the solid point is made to slide in along a grooved tube for a certain distance; the shell is then placed in the tube and fired, when the solid point follows it out and becomes again securely fixed in its former position. —  The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure

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