cockerel

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As does the surrounding lonely shoreline and saltmarsh, whose muddy tussocks hop with wading birds and whose beaches are composed, in part, of yellow cockleshells.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2014

The pilots of the cockleshells that whined their way down the Hudson were doing it for fun.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wheeling and cavorting came Old King Cole, in canopied splendor suspended between four elephants; ranks of pretty maids with cockleshells; a cow that literally leaped over the moon.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the years of Anschluss, appeasement, decree laws have not favored amorous cockleshells.

From Time Magazine Archive

Powdered cockleshells were sprinkled over the earth to keep it firm.

From Westminster The Fascination of London by Smith, A. Murray, Mrs.