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prawn collapse: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible; any of various edible decapod crustaceans; fish for prawns

shellfish collapse: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

steamer collapse: a ship powered by one or more steam engines; a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it; travel by means of steam power; "The ship steamed off into the Pacific"

lobster collapse: any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae; flesh of a lobster

oyster collapse: marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters; a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl; gather oysters, dig oysters

limpet collapse: any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas; mollusk with a low conical shell

scull collapse: a racing shell that is propelled by sculls; each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman; a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward; propel with sculls; "scull the boat"

punt collapse: (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground; "the punt traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the game"; an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole; propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"; kick the ball

snail collapse: freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell; gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"

clam collapse: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness; flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams; gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

whelk collapse: large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell; large marine snail much used as food in Europe; gather whelk

lime collapse: the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees; any of various related trees bearing limes; cover with lime so as to induce growth; "lime the lawn"

shrimp collapse: small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible; fish for shrimp

catch up collapse: learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened; "I'm trying to catch up with the latest developments in molecular biology"; reach the point where one should be after a delay; "I caught up on my homework"

catch on collapse: become popular; "This fashion caught on in Paris"; understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"

ensnare collapse: take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"

scallop collapse: edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions; edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces; one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.); shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress"; fish for scallops; form scallops in; "scallop the meat"; bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top; decorate an edge with scallops; "the dress had a scalloped skirt"

crab collapse: a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"; decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers; the edible flesh of any of various crabs; a quarrelsome grouch; fish for crab; scurry sideways like a crab; direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

whiner collapse: a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

kvetch collapse: (Yiddish) a nagging complaint; (Yiddish) a constant complainer

feather collapse: turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls; the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds; turn the oar, while rowing; turn the paddle; in canoeing; cover or fit with feathers; join tongue and groove, in carpentry

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