conch

conch definitions

• To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers. 

• To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral. 

• A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell. 

• A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet. 

• The shell of this sea animal. 

• Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”) 

• The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.