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Word: cockle (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • Any of several field weeds, such as the corn cockle
  • Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family ''Cardiidae'', having heart-shaped shells.
  • [''directly from French coquille''] A wrinkle, pucker
  • ''hence'' A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
  • (''plural'') One?s the cockles of one?s heart?).
  • The shell of such cockle.

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Verb:

  • To wrinkle, pucker

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