cockel-shell

Updated: May 25, 2025

I wonder where the cummers will anchor their craft? 'And I'll vow, said another rustic, 'the wine they quaff is none of your visionary drink, such as a drouthie body has dished out to his lips in a dream; nor is it shadowy and unsubstantial, like the vessels they sail in, which are made out of a cockel-shell or a cast-off slipper, or the paring of a seaman's right thumb-nail.

Anonymous - Folk-Lore and Legends: Scotland