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Definition of Cockle
1. Verb. Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.
Entails: Fold, Fold Up, Turn Up
Generic synonyms: Flow, Flux
Derivative terms: Riffle, Ripple, Rippling
2. Noun. Common edible European bivalve.
3. Verb. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds. "They cockle the sheets"; "She puckered her lips"
Related verbs: Draw
Generic synonyms: Crease, Crinkle, Crisp, Ruckle, Scrunch, Scrunch Up, Wrinkle
4. Noun. Common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs.
Group relationships: Cardium, Genus Cardium
Specialized synonyms: Cardium Edule, Edible Cockle
Definition of Cockle
1. n. A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
2. v. t. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
3. n. A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
Definition of Cockle
1. Noun. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family ''Cardiidae'', having heart-shaped shells. ¹
2. Noun. The shell of such cockle. ¹
3. Noun. (context: plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”). ¹
4. Noun. (context: directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker ¹
5. Noun. ''hence'' A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep ¹
6. Verb. To wrinkle, pucker ¹
7. Noun. Any of several field weeds, such as the corn cockle ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cockle
1. to wrinkle or pucker [v -LED, -LING, -LES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockle
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