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cockle
UK /ˈkɒkl̩/ US /ˈkɑk(ə)l/
noun 7verb 2
Collocations
1COCKLE + NOUN
spurge
Definitions
noun
1
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
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
A wrinkle, pucker
4
A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
5
Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
verb
1
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
noun
1
Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
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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 unpalata
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But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
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Israel Wilde arrived last, his ankle swollen and already berry-blue after cockling at the top of Hatherself Scout.
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