single shell

1. 1.

   a shell for a single oarsman

   Synonymsracing skiff

   Broadershell

Questions about single shell

What does single shell mean?

single shell means "a shell for a single oarsman".

What is another word for single shell?

Close synonyms include racing skiff. 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 single shell a common word?

single 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.