racing shell

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   a very light narrow racing boat

   Synonymsshell

   Broaderracing boat

   Narrowerracing skiffscull

   Partssliding seat

Questions about racing shell

What does racing shell mean?

racing shell means "a very light narrow racing boat".

What is another word for racing shell?

Close synonyms include shell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is racing shell a common word?

racing shell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.