Limpets [noun]

Shell, rather limpet-like, with a hooked apex (whence its generic name), adheres to stones or piles in running water.

When the tide is out, the Limpet clings to the rock, its soft body tucked safely away in the shell.

Then the Limpet's shell may be seen to tilt up, and a foot, and a head with feelers and eyes, come out.

In time this resting-place becomes hollowed out, and the Limpet's shell fits into the groove thus made.

You will know, if you have tried to force a Limpet from its hold on the rock, how very tightly it clings.

The Limpet crawls to the seaweed and begins to browse, using a rasp like that of the Periwinkle.

Let the cult of that lusty Titan, the Limpet, sink awhile into the limbo of outworn idolatries.

The shell is usually spiral in form, as in the whelk, but sometimes conical (limpet) or tubular.

The reader has probably experienced the difficulty of detaching a limpet from its hold on the rocks.

Low sheds and open stalls cling, limpet-like, to every available nook and corner.