COCKLE

Cockle

Cockle is the common name for a group of small, edible, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae. Various species of cockles live in sandy, sheltered beaches throughout the world. The distinctive rounded shells of cockles are bilaterally symmetrical, and are heart-shaped when viewed from the end. Numerous radial ribs occur in most but not all genera. For an exception, see the genus Laevicardium, the egg cockles, which have very smooth shells.

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cockle

Noun

  1. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
  2. The shell of such a mollusk.
  3. One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
  4. A wrinkle, pucker
  5. A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
  6. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
  7. The fire chamber of a furnace.
  8. A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
  9. The dome of a heating furnace.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, , and Lolium temulentum.

Verb

  1. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.


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