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The shell of a clam
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clamshell
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the shell of a clam a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam [syn: grapple ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. similar to the operation of a clam's shell, having a hinge with two sides closing together n. 1 The shell of a clam. 2 A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam. 3 In foodservice, the white, usually styrofoam box given to consumers with ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clamshell may refer to: Bivalve shell , the shell of a clam Scoop stretcher , another name for this patient transport device Flip (form) , a folding phone or other folding electronic device, also known as a "clamshell" Clamshell (container) Clamshell case ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
clamshell \clamshell\ n. the shell of a clam. a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam. Syn: grapple.
Usage examples of clamshell.
Her fingers bumped the clamshell she had found lying half in, half out of the water, half buried in the sand.
She swaddled, instead, the clamshell in smoothed-out wax paper for safer keeping, for she meant the painted and shellacked shell to contain for all time her resolve and her reasons and her hopes of the day.
It was just a cubbyhole in the metal of the sail, formed by lowering clamshell doors down to expose an unused volume at the top of the bridge trunk.
He ducked down and reached for a clamshell on the port side of the cockpit--the clamshells were hinged panels that covered the top of the cockpit when rigged for dive, smoothing it out with the contour of the top of the sail.
The clamshell was heavy, made of inch-thick HY-80 steel for breaking through polar ice.
Lennox poked his head out the starboard clamshell, ducked quickly back in as he saw the second chopper in its approach.
Lennox, still standing with his head exposed out the starboard clamshell opening, stared at the missiles slung on missile rails on booms extending from the flanks of the choppers.
He had rigged the bridge for dive, with the exception of latching up the final clamshell and shutting the upper hatch to the bridge-access tunnel.
After a last look at the surface he closed the clamshell, ducked into the bridge-access trunk and shut the hatch above him.
He dropped the white sheet and bent to snap up the heavy clamshell on the port side.
When he stood to fold up the central clamshell he saw the Luda destroyer directly ahead.
They had discovered this when they went to pay their respects to the presumably dead denizens with clamshell leis, as Ke-ola had showed them.
Ahead of them, the giant figure of the sea god Poseidon stood in a massive open clamshell, surrounded by admiring half-naked mermaids who stroked his bulging muscles.
The hold was configured for rapid assaults: instead of a single hatch across the entire frontage, worked by a screw jack, the hold had six paired clamshell doors that sprang open under the action of powerful hydraulic rams.
Though Dock 22 was closed and the interior had been purged, too much of the hellish Venerian atmosphere leaked past the domed clamshell doors for the dock to be open onto the city proper.