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cockle

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Etymology 1

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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”), of Pre-Greek substrate origin.

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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. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
  4. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
  5. (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
  6. (UK)
    1. The dome of a heating furnace.[1]
    2. The fire chamber of a furnace.[2]
    3. A kiln for drying hops; an oast.[3]
    4. (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.[4]
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cockle (third-person singular simple present cockles, present participle cockling, simple past and past participle cockled)

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

Etymology 2

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

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    cockle (plural cockles)

    1. Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
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    Etymology 3

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    Origin uncertain.

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

    1. (Scotland, Northern England, Midlands) To wobble, shake; to be unsteady. [from 17th c.]
      • 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 32:
        Israel Wilde arrived last, his ankle swollen and already berry-blue after cockling at the top of Hatherself Scout.

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    Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.

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    cockle (plural cockles)

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

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    1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Cockle”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
    2. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Cockle”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
    3. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Cockle”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
    4. ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881), “Cockle”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.

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