1. cockle(n = noun.food) Array - common edible European bivalve; Array
is a kind of shellfish
is a part of cardium edule, edible cockle
2. cockle(n = noun.animal) Array - common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs; Array
is a kind of bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod
is a member of cardium, genus cardium
has particulars: cardium edule, edible cockle
1. cockle(v = verb.motion) riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate - stir up (water) so as to form ripples; Array
is one way to flow, flux
Sample sentences:
Something ----s; Somebody ----s something
2. cockle(v = verb.contact) crumple, knit, pucker, rumple - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
is one way to crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
1. A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus
2. A cockleshell. [1913 Webster]
3. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
4. The fire chamber of a furnace. Knight. [1913 Webster]
5. A hop-drying kiln; an oast. Knight. [1913 Webster]
6. The dome of a heating furnace. Knight. [1913 Webster]
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting. [1913 Webster]
A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (
cockle, n.
1 a any edible mollusc of the genus Cardium, having a chubby ribbed bivalve shell. b its shell.
2 (in full cockle-shell) a small shallow boat.
Idiom:
warm the cockles of one's heart make one contented; be satisfying.
cockle, n.
1 any of various plants, esp. the pink-flowered corn-cockle, Agrostemma githago, growing among corn, esp. wheat.
2 a disease of wheat that turns the grains black.
cockle, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. pucker, wrinkle.
2 tr. cause to cockle.
--n. a pucker or wrinkle in paper, glass, etc.
Etymology:
F coquiller blister (bread in cooking) f. coquille: see COCKLE(1)
VB caress, fondle, pet, dandle, pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek, chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cocker, cockle, make of, make much of, cherish, foster, kill with kindness, clasp, hug, cuddle, fold in one's arms, strain in one's arms, nestle, nuzzle, embrace, kiss, buss, smack, blow a kiss, salute, fold to the heart, press to the bosom, bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet, gallivant, galavant, philander, make love, pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to, serenade, court, woo, set one's cap at, be sweet upon, look sweet upon, ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon, faire les yeux doux, fall in love with, win the affections, die for, propose, make an offer, have an offer, pop the question, plight one's troth, plight one's faith.