ALL meanings of cockle
cock·le
C c - countable noun cockle Cockles are small edible shellfish. 3
- noun cockle any sand-burrowing bivalve mollusc of the family Cardiidae, esp Cardium edule (edible cockle) of Europe, typically having a rounded shell with radiating ribs 3
- noun cockle any of certain similar or related molluscs 3
- noun cockle a wrinkle or puckering, as in cloth or paper 3
- noun cockle a small furnace or stove 3
- verb cockle to contract or cause to contract into wrinkles 3
- noun cockle any of several plants, esp the corn cockle, that grow as weeds in cornfields 3
- noun cockle any of a family (Cardiidae) of edible, marine bivalve mollusks with two heart-shaped, radially ridged shells 3
- noun cockle a cockleshell 3
- noun cockle a wrinkle; pucker 3
- intransitive verb cockle to wrinkle; pucker 3
- noun cockle any of various weeds that grow in grainfields, as the corn cockle 3
- noun cockle An edible, burrowing bivalve mollusk with a strong ribbed shell. 1
- noun cockle a weed, as the darnel Lolium temulentum, or rye grass, L. perenne. 1
- verb without object cockle to contract into wrinkles; pucker: This paper cockles easily. 1
- noun cockle mollusc 1
- verb without object cockle to rise in short, irregular waves; ripple: The waves cockled along the shore. 1
- intransitive verb cockle paper: wrinkle 1
- verb with object cockle to cause to wrinkle, pucker, or ripple: The wind cockled the water. 1
- transitive verb cockle paper: make wrinkled 1
- idioms cockle cockles of one's heart, the depths of one's emotions or feelings: The happy family scene warmed the cockles of his heart. 1
- noun cockle Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells. 0
- noun cockle The shell of such a mollusk. 0
- noun cockle (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”). 0
- noun cockle (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker. 0
- noun cockle (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep. 0
- noun cockle (mining, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl. 0
- noun cockle (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace. 0
- noun cockle (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast. 0
- noun cockle (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace. 0
- noun cockle Any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum. 0
- verb cockle To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker. 0