It will then be resurfaced with cockleshells, providing the perfect habitat for the terns. |
Its cargo was tiny, flimsy-looking collapsible canvas boats, known in military slang as Cockleshells. |
The crew of both remaining cockleshells placed limpet mines on the merchant ships they found in the harbour. |
Silver bells and cockleshells are believed to be euphemisms for instruments of torture. |