What is "conches"

Usage examples of "conches".

It swallowed the fishing boats, leaving them blind, and the docks resounded to the bellows of the conches, as each boat sounded a separate tone to warn away its sisters.

It was a horn blast, like the sound of the ships' conches in fog, but louder, and much wilder.

The last time the conches had been blown a fire had threatened to engulf half the Sul district, and it had taken the combined forces of three districts and the mindlifters from the Tanjo to extinguish it.

The yellow-sailed fishing boats blew their conches again, and the muddy hollow beneath the boardwalk struts resounded to cheers.

The run-boat was loading live crawfish and conches and a deck load of conch shells and empty gasoline and Diesel oil drums and the islanders stood in line in the heavy wind waiting their turn in the cabin.

He looked out at his ship and the line of the breakers and Willie in the stern of the skiff with a water glass looking over the side for conches while the skiff drifted.

Have Willie fill the ice-well with conches and we will take only enough water to the next key.

The drums began to beat, and when the conches sent their shrill blast through the kou trees, Malama and her two attendants started FROM THE FARM OF BITTERNESS 265 walking past the fish pond, along the dusty road beside the alii's houses, and into the center of the town.

At the next dusk, the conches sounded and a good many sailors climbed into boats and returned to their ships.

Then they banged the temple bells and blew the conches louder than ever.