Definitions for cockle

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cockle cock·le

Spelling: [kok-uh l]

IPA: /ˈkɒk əl/

Cockle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in cockle (cceklo).

Definitions for cockle

noun

1. any bivalve mollusk of the genus Cardium, having somewhat heart-shaped, radially ribbed valves, especially C. edule, the common edible species of Europe.
2. any of various allied or similar mollusks.
3. cockleshell (defs 1, 2).
4. a wrinkle; pucker:
5. a small, crisp candy of sugar and flour, bearing a motto.
6. a weed, as the darnel Lolium temulentum, or rye grass, L. perenne.

Idioms

1. cockles of one's heart, the depths of one's emotions or feelings:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to wrinkle, pucker, or ripple:

verb (used without object)

1. to contract into wrinkles; pucker:
2. to rise in short, irregular waves; ripple:

Origin of cockle

1350-1400; Middle English cokille Middle French coqille Vulgar Latin *cocchīlia, Latin conchylia, plural of conchȳlium Greek konchȳ́lion, equivalent to konchȳ́l(ē) mussel + -ion diminutive

Examples for cockle

But it is really a shell-bearing mollusk, like the cockle and the clam.

In the trough of the sea the ship rocks like a cockle shell.

The largest and finest "cockle" of the east coast of the United States.

You take my advice, and try a couple of cockle's anti-bilious.

The paper will be found to cockle the mounts badly in drying.

The result of this is to cockle the vellum in a most unpleasant fashion.

On further inspection, the money was found to be cockle shells.

The plump grain is on top, but there are cockle and chess at the bottom.

They loved to bind his forehead with the cockle shells that decked their own tresses.

Dr cockle had become accustomed to it, but I cannot fancy that it was very pleasant to him.