pearl shell's Usage Examples:

The pearling industry centred on the harvesting of pearl shell, which was used mainly to make shirt buttons.

"Raden" is a term used only for the technique or work of inlaying thin layers of pearl shells.

Coastal dwelling Aboriginal people had collected and traded pearl shell as well as trepang and tortoise with fisherman from Sulawesi for possibly.

his own pearling lugger, diving for natural pearls, and for mother-of-pearl shell.

mother-of-pearl shells that have the same name cedula - a Philippine tax cooties - from Tagalog and Austronesian word kuto which literally means "head lice".

Before being decorated, the pearl shell is known as guwan.

In addition to this the finds also consisted of tea, mother-of-pearl shells, galangal, pepper, silk fabric, ingots of tutanego (these contained 99% zinc, 0,5% iron) not to be confused with paktong, cannonballs, lead shots, rapier handles, sword hilts, rigging material and objects belonging to the officers and crew.

The missionaries had to counter the influence of European traders, who sold alcohol and tobacco along with general merchandise in return for pearl shell, copra and the fine rito mats for which Rakahanga/Manihiki was already famous.

Similarly pearl shell pendants, Nautilus shell necklaces, and Melo shells came from the Bandjin.

kina is derived from Kuanua language of the Tolai region, referring to a callable pearl shell used widely for trading in both the Coastal and Highlands areas.

Inlay pearl shell inlays decorated traditional double canoes.

the task of pearl hunting, and the associated activity of collecting pearl shell as a raw material for the manufacture of buttons, inlays and other decorative.

with seaweed, either enthroned beside Neptune or driving with him in a pearl shell chariot drawn by dolphins, sea-horses (hippocamps) or other fabulous.

Synonyms:

whizzbang, ammunition, whizbang shell, ammo, shotgun shell, artillery shell, tank shell, whizbang, shrapnel,

Antonyms:

comparable, inadvisable, unblock, unfreeze, victory,