Sentence examples for a shell knife from inspiring English sources

a Shell knife Bar = 5 cm.

Odoriferous piles of sneakers on the dock belonged to the teenagers out in the boats, four or eight to a shell, knifing through the water, oars arcing in unison, coxswains barking orders through a megaphone.

The shell knife may have been used for harvesting rice panicles.

Figure 2 illustrates the farming tools (shell knife and stone hoe) and carbonated seeds (rice and foxtail millet) excavated from the sites.

On comparison with ethnographical records, these shell knives were probably used as a kind of grain-harvesting tool (Tsang and Li 2015).

The most distinguishing tools are shell knives.

The maturation degree of florets differs in one single panicle (i.e., the flowering time of each floret in one panicle differs from the earliest to the latest for about 10 days), and the use of shell knives in NKLE indicated that these seeds did not shatter on maturation.

Three boys -- Eric McKeehan, 17, and two 15-year-olds whose names were withheld because of their age -- were arrested at their homes on Saturday by investigators with search warrants who said they found shotgun shells, knives, a flare, a loose-leaf binder with bomb-making instructions and photographs of the boys holding what appeared to be handguns.

His tools are a knife a shell, his thumb.

The authorities said that after executing search warrants at the boys' homes and finding shotgun shells, knives, a notebook with bomb-making instructions and photographs of the boys holding handguns, the police arrested Mr. McKeehan and the two 15-year-olds on Saturday.

Approaching, he drove the knife into a shell and smilingly handed us a skewered abalone (an edible sea snail).