carapace

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He and his second wife, Mary Morgan, 41, spend the winters aboard their boat Carapace in the British Virgin Islands and most of the rest of the year in Maine and Arkansas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dock workers in Manhattan disdained to haul Spock's new 35-ft. ketch Carapace aboard the freighter Atlantic Clipper, headed for the Virgin Islands, where Spock has a winter home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carapace, kar′a-pās, n. the shell of the crab, tortoise, &c.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

We left him sailing on his outspread mantle, into the light of the morning, over Lake Carapace.

From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Carapace more than twice as wide as long; the sides in front extended into a long slightly bent spine.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by MacGillivray, John