cockle

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒkl̩/
    • Audio (RP)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒkəl

Etymology 1
Cockles

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”), from Proto-Indo-European *konkho.

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

  1. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
    • 1990, Dido Davies; Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography, page 164:
      His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.
  2. The shell of such a mollusk.
  3. (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
  4. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
  5. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
  6. (mining, UK, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl[1].
  7. (UK) The fire chamber of a furnace[2].
  8. (UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast[3].
  9. (UK) The dome of a heating furnace[4].
Derived terms
Translations
wrinkle — see wrinkle
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Verb

cockle (third-person singular simple present cockles, present participle cockling, simple past and past participle cockled)

  1. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.

Etymology 2

Wikispecies

Wikispecies From Middle English cockil, cokil, cokylle, from Old English coccel (“darnel”), of unknown origin, perhaps from a diminutive of Latin coccus (“berry”).

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

  1. Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
Synonyms
Translations
corncockle — see corncockle
See also

Etymology 3

Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

  1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.

References
  1. 1881, Rossiter W. Raymond, A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms
  2. 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
  3. 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
  4. 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary

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