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n. 1 A marine gastropod of the family ''(taxlink Strombidae family noshow=1)'' which lives in its own spiral shell. 2 The shell of this sea animal. 3 A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell. 4 A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to develop the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding; a concher or concher machine. vb. 1 To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers. 2 To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
a. (obsolete spelling of strictest English)
n. (plural of firebase English)
Usage examples of "firebases".
The cans were essentially firm firebases for when we had big contacts, with a turret-mounted machine gun.
To capture those communications, the system was set up on several remote firebases located on high and isolated hills.
Quang Tri Province and turned the lonely firebases, like islands in the sky, into shooting galleries.