cockle

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒkl̩/
• Rhymes: -ɒkəl

Cockles

From Middle English cokel, cokkel, kokkel, cocle, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a diminutive of Middle English cokke, cok (“cockle”), from Old English cocc (found in sǣcocc (“cockle”)) +‎ -le; or perhaps from Old French coquille, from Vulgar Latin *cocchilia, form of Latin conchylia, from Ancient Greek κογχύλιον (konkhúlion), diminutive of κογχύλη (konkhúlē, “mussel”), from Proto-Indo-European *konkho.

cockle (plural cockles)

1. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
2. The shell of such a mollusk.
3. (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
4. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
5. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
6. (mining, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.

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7. (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace.

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8. (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.

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9. (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace.

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• scallop

cockle (third-person singular simple present cockles, present participle cockling, simple past and past participle cockled)

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

Wikispecies

Wikispecies From Middle English cockil, cokil, cokylle, from Old English coccel (“darnel”), of unknown origin, perhaps from a diminutive of Latin coccus (“berry”).

cockle (plural cockles)

1. Any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, Agrostemma githago, and 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.

• (Lolium temulentum): darnel, false wheat

• aquatic cockle
• corncockle
• cocklebur

• cheat
• rye grass
• tare
• vetch

• Elcock, clocke