Cockle

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The body or fire-chamber of an air-stove, usually made of fire-brick.
  • noun. A kind of kiln or stove for drying hops.
  • noun. In porcelain manufacturing, a large stove used for drying biscuit-ware which has been dipped in glaze, preparatory to burning.
  • noun. Darnel, Lolium temulentum; rye-grass, L. perenne; tare; a weed generally.
  • noun. The corn-rose or corn-cockle, Lychnis (Agrostemma) Githago.
  • To cry like a cock.
  • noun. An Australian bivalve mollusk, Cardium tenuicostatum; also, a member of the genus Chione.
  • noun. A small crisp confection of sugar stiffened with flour, variously flavored, and of a pink, light-yellow, or white color. Mottoes were printed on them in red letters.
  • noun. A pucker or wrinkle; an unevenness, as in cloth or glass.
  • noun. A disease of wheat caused by a nematoid worm, Telenchus tritici, which infests the grain and causes it to become deformed.
  • To pucker or contract into wrinkles, as cloth or glass.
  • To rise into frequent ridges, as the waves of a chopping sea.
  • To make a slight score on the cogs or teeth of a mill, as a guide for cutting off their ends, so that the whole may be given a truly circular form.
  • To cause to pucker in wrinkles: as, rain will cockle silk.
  • noun. A young cock; a cockerel.
  • noun. A mollusk of the family Cardiidæ and genus Cardium; especially, the common edible species of Europe, Cardium edule; the shell of such mollusks.
  • noun. An equivalve bivalve, resembling or related to mollusks of the genus Cardium.
  • noun. A univalve mollusk of the family Muricidæ; the murex or purple-fish.
  • noun. A ringlet or crimp.
  • noun. [See cockle, verb] The instrument used in cockling the cogs of a mill.
  • noun. Same as cockle, 2 .
  • noun. To be hanged: from the noise made while strangling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
  • transitive verb. waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A cockleshell.
  • noun. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
  • noun. The fire chamber of a furnace.
  • noun. A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
  • noun. The dome of a heating furnace.
  • noun. a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim.
  • noun. winding or spiral stairs.
  • noun. A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
  • noun. The Lotium, or darnel.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several field weeds, such as the corn cockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum.
  • noun. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
  • noun. The shell of such a mollusk.
  • noun. One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
  • noun. A wrinkle, pucker
  • noun. hence A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
  • verb. To wrinkle, pucker
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  • noun. common edible European bivalve
  • noun. common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
  • verb. stir up (water) so as to form ripples