Cockle

Definitions

1. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
2. Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
3. A £10 note; a tenner.
   Cockney, slang
4. The shell of such a mollusk.
5. A wrinkle, pucker
6. A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
   broadly
7. Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
   figuratively, in-plural
8. The dome of a heating furnace.
   UK
9. The fire chamber of a furnace.
   UK
10. A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
    UK
11. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
    Cornwall, UK

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Examples

“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.”

“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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