"cockleshell" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From cockle + shell.",
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      "form": "cockleshells",
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          "ref": "1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 203:",
          "text": "The moment land had disappeared, the great canoe seemed no larger than a cockleshell; the waves lapped dangerously near to the tops of the gunwales, all but toppling into the canoe; and that is the curious thing about Polynesian canoes: the water always laps just to the tops of the gunwales, no matter whether the canoe is shallow or deep, whether empty or heavily laden.",
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        "The shell of a cockle (or similar shell)."
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