pilgrim's shell
(also pilgrim shell)
noun
A scallop shell (also occasionally a cockleshell), especially one carried by a pilgrim as a sign of having visited the shrine of St James of Compostela; an artificial imitation of such a shell.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- rack-mount
- rack-mountable
- rack-mounted
- rack mounting
- rack of bones
- rack (or wrack) one's brains (or brain)
- rack-out
- rack pillar
- rack pin
- rack pole
- rack punch
- rack rail
- rack railway
- rack rate
- rack rent
- rack-rental
- rack-renter
- rack rod
- rack saw
- rack side
- rack something up
- rack spring
- rack-stick
- rack system
- rack tail