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Cockle   /kˈɑkəl/   Listen
Cockle

noun
1.
Common edible European bivalve.
2.
Common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs.
verb
(past & past part. cockled; pres. part. cockling)
1.
Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.  Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate.
2.
To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.  Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple.



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"Cockle" Quotes from Famous Books



... women of the green hair taught the child music and dancing and a thousand graces. They loved to bind his forehead with the cockle shells that decked their own tresses. But he, remembering his country, gnawed his clenched ...
— Honey-Bee - 1911 • Anatole France
... swallowed up by the vast, unfathomable ocean, into which the horizon fell on every side around him! And his chance of escape how small! Hundreds of miles from any from whom he might expect assistance, and the only means of reaching them a small boat—a mere cockle-shell, which the first rough ...
— The Pirate and The Three Cutters • Frederick Marryat
... Apollo or a Hercules—the sailors whistled for wind, and finally succeeded in obtaining it. The moon rose early over the dark waters, and the boat, behaving admirably, rode the huge waves like a cockle. We had nearly gone to pieces on a coral reef that night if "Jac-cook," suddenly aroused by the unusual sound of breakers, had not lowered sail in time to save the ship from running on the sharp rock half a mile from land. The sailors, perfectly incompetent, and panic-stricken at the course the ...
— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert
... drew nearer I descried a slant incline from the open excavation down which the blocks of stone were slid. They were brought to the surface by hoisting cranes, and just as our little porcelain cockle-shell glided to the dock, an enormous fragment rudely shaped into a cubical form, was moving down the metal road bed to the edge of ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap
... lady-bug green, Studs of gold on a ground of green; And the quivering lance which he brandished bright, Was the sting of a wasp he had slain in fight. Swift he bestrode his fire-fly steed; He bared his blade of the bent-grass blue; He drove his spurs of the cockle-seed, And away like a glance of thought he flew, To skim the heavens, and follow far The fiery trail ...
— The Posy Ring - A Book of Verse for Children • Various


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