cockle
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkɒkl̩/
cockle (plural cockles)
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (mining, UK, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- (UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
- (UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (UK) The dome of a heating furnace.
cockle (cockles, present participle cockling; past and past participle cockled)
- To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
cockle (plural cockles)
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, X:
- But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, X:
- (Lolium temulentum) darnel, false wheat
- French: ivraie enivrante
- Italian: loglio
- Portuguese: joio
- Spanish: cizaña
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