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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
Literary usage of Cockle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Londonby Royal Society (Great Britain) by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1896)
""named" cockle for the post "on account of the estimation and regard in which he
... cockle commenced his judicial labours amid difficulties not of his own ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"... its extremity whenever the larynx was elevated by an attempt at deglutition.
The cockle-bur was evidently situated vertically, with one end within the ..."
3. Journal by United States Congress Senate (1879)
"Black, Buck, Burt, Carter of Adams, Carter of Johnson Churchill. cockle ...
cockle. Collins, Core, Cremer, (looker, Davis, Day, ..."
4. The Stock-poisoning plants of Montana: A Preliminary Report by Victor King Chesnut, Earley Vernon Wilcox (1901)
"The cow cockle grows in waste places, in cultivated soil, ... This and not the
corn cockle (Agrostemma githago) is the plant referred to by the millers of ..."
5. The British Drama: Comprehending the Best Plays in the English Language by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1804)
"SIR JOHN cockle. SIR TIMOTHY FLASH. GREENWOOD, attached to Miss KITTY. ...
JOHN cockle. Three Courtiers. SCENE I. WOMEN. Miss KITTY, engaged to GREENWOOD. ..."
6. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"A seller of cockles. cockle-SHELL, ». The badge of a pilgrim, worn in the front
of the hat, and implying that the bearer had been at sea. cockle-STAIRS,». ..."
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