Entry: nacelle (n.)
In context: "When Tavis and Schtitt and the players and ground crew and Testar and ATHSCME teams inflate the all-weather Lung for the winter over Courts 16-32, the domed Lung's nacelle is visible against the horizon all the way down by the Brighton Ave.-Comm. Ave. split in lower Allston."
Definition: Any hollow vessel or object resembling a boat in shape.
Other:
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 170
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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