Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shell of the genus Pyrula or family Pyrulidæ a fig-shell.
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Examples
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Natives whom I did not remember ever having seen before, strayed over the rail and presented us with fish poles, fish lines and pear-shell fish hooks.
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