weavers' shuttle

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English

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"But the most siingular shell belonging to this group is the Waver's Shuttle, (Radius volva,) in which each end of the lip is produced into a very slender canal, longer than the body of the shell itself."
"Of the Ovulidae, the most curious is the "Weaver's-shuttle" ( Radius volva ) , in which the shell is peculiarly beaked at both ends ."

From its shape.

weavers' shuttles (plural)

shuttle volva

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