cockle
Plural: cockles
Noun
- common edible European bivalve
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- A wrinkle, pucker
- A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- A £10 note; a tenner.
Verb
Verb Forms: cockled, cockling, cockles
- To wrinkle or pucker, especially fabric or paper.
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
- To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
- To wobble, shake; to be unsteady.
Examples
- The paper board started to cockle from all the intense Words With Friends gameplay.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 14
cockle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcockle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cockle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary