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Cockle   /kˈɑkəl/   Listen
noun
Cockle  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially Cardium edule, used in Europe for food; sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
2.
A cockleshell.
3.
The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; so called by the Cornish miners.
4.
The fire chamber of a furnace. (Eng.)
5.
A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
6.
The dome of a heating furnace.
Cockle hat, a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim.
Cockle stairs, winding or spiral stairs.


Cockle  n.  (Bot.)
(a)
A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
(b)
The Lotium, or darnel.


verb
Cockle  v. t.  (past & past part. cockled; pres. part. cockling)  To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion.





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"Cockle" Quotes from Famous Books



... same that is between a Snail and a Cockle, or, if you like the Comparison better, ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus
... Egeria to the American journalists in Berlin, who has no use for Bernstorff or Gerard or Zimmermann, has been one of his many cockle burrs. Most of the German-Americans who chose to protest about the shipment of munitions and all of pro-submarine Germany plus an aspirant or two for his post—all of these have been busy against him. And the Americans are legion who have seconded the hate. He himself ...
— My Three Years in America • Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
... could have sold, and then have bought much better apples grown in the plains. I also notice that the flour of which this pastry is made was ground from the wheat of this region, which is always largely mixed with cockle. If the people would give up growing wheat for three or four years, cockle would probably disappear, and they would then have flour of a much higher grade.' Almia and the two soldiers could not help smiling when they perceived that while the Exceptional ...
— John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein • Frank R. Stockton
... farmer great service, by eating the cockle-burs which grow on the rich alluvial soil of Carolina. This prickly fruit is apt to come off on the wool of the sheep, which, in some places, it almost completely destroys. The bird also lives on the beech-nut and seeds of the cypress. The head—with ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston
... cap, saying, "Here is the cap your worship bespoke." On which Petruchio began to storm afresh, saying the cap was molded in a porringer and that it was no bigger than a cockle or walnut shell, desiring the haberdasher to take it ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb


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