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noun
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
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noun
The shell of such a mollusk.
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noun
A wrinkle, pucker
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Qualifier: directly from French coquille
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noun
A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
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Usage: broadly
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noun
Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
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Usage: figuratively, in-plural
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noun
The dome of a heating furnace.
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Usage: UK
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noun
The fire chamber of a furnace.
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Usage: UK
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noun
A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
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Usage: UK
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noun
The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
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Usage: Cornwall, UK
Topics: business, mining
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noun
Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
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noun
A £10 note; a tenner.
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Usage: Cockney, slang
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verb
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To wobble, shake; to be unsteady.
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Usage: Midlands, Northern-England, Scotland
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noun
common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
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Broader terms: bivalve, pelecypod, lamellibranch
Narrower terms: edible cockle, Cardium edule
noun
common edible European bivalve
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Broader terms: shellfish
verb
to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
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Synonyms: pucker, rumple, crumple, knit
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Broader terms: wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
verb
stir up (water) so as to form ripples
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ripple, ruffle, riffle, undulate
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Broader terms: flow, flux
History
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, from conchylia, from Ancient Greek κογχύλιον (konkhúlion), diminutive of κογχύλη (konkhúlē, “mussel”), of Pre-Greek substrate origin.
From Middle English cockil, cokil, cokylle, from Old English coccel (“darnel”), of unknown origin, perhaps from a diminutive of Latin coccus (“berry”).
Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.
Origin uncertain.
Across languages
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