cockle
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Old French cokille, from Latin *cocchilia, form of conchylia, from Ancient Greek κογχύλιον (konkhylion), diminutive of κογχύλη (konkhylès, “mussel”).
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Wikipedia cockle (plural cockles)
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The shell of such cockle.
- (plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- hence A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
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any of various edible European bivalve mollusks
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the shell of the cockle
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one’s innermost feelings
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a defect in sheepskin
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cockle (third-person singular simple present cockles, present participle cockling, simple past and past participle cockled)
- To wrinkle, pucker
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From Old English coccel, perhaps from a diminutive of Latin coccus (“berry”)
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cockle (plural cockles)
- Any of several field weeds, such as the corn cockle
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any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle
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