pearl shell's Usage Examples:

Before being decorated, the pearl shell is known as guwan.

with seaweed, either enthroned beside Neptune or driving with him in a pearl shell chariot drawn by dolphins, sea-horses (hippocamps) or other fabulous.

Coastal dwelling Aboriginal people had collected and traded pearl shell as well as trepang and tortoise with fisherman from Sulawesi for possibly.

derived from Kuanua language of the Tolai region, referring to a callable pearl shell used widely for trading in both the Coastal and Highlands areas of the.

their arrival around 1300AD, principally by the discovery of a tropical pearl shell lure in 2001.

was engaged in Pacific trading of phosphates, copra, and pearl shell.

the task of pearl hunting, and the associated activity of collecting pearl shell as a raw material for the manufacture of buttons, inlays and other decorative.

Similarly pearl shell pendants, Nautilus shell necklaces, and Melo shells came from the Bandjin.

In September 1834 the presence of pearl shell and guano were noted by Thomas Hunt of the schooner Monkey, while searching.

his own pearling lugger, diving for natural pearls, and for mother-of-pearl shell.

The pearling industry centred on the harvesting of pearl shell, which was used mainly to make shirt buttons.

Aboriginal workers' co-operative, living independently by mining and pearl shell gathering.

Synonyms:

whizzbang; ammunition; whizbang shell; ammo; shotgun shell; artillery shell; tank shell; whizbang; shrapnel;

Antonyms:

comparable; inadvisable; unblock; unfreeze; victory;