cockle

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Verb

To wobble, shake; to be unsteady.

Synonyms

pucker

darnel

mussel

shellfish

clam

knit

riffle

rumple

scallop

crumple

oyster

🦪

wrinkle

undulate

ark shell

ripple

ruffle

shrink

shrivel

wimple

crimple

ivory shell

alligatoring

escallop

cow soapwort

cowcockle

bivalve mollusc

cowherb

edible cockle

piddock

flow mark

elephant skin

elephant’s peel

crowfoot cracks

mussla

barnacle

shellfish type

cockleshell

conch

contract

corrugate

cower

crease

crimp

cringe

crinkle

crouch

gather

muscle

💪

ruck

shallop

Translations

Herzmuschel

berbigão

escopinya

coque

🐚

bucarde

kokkel

berberecho

kokhaan

Muschel

Lolium temulentum

hartschelp

rigadeau

cuori

sourdon

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒkl̩/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cokel

Inherited from Old English: cocc

Inherited from Middle English: cockil

Inherited from Old English: coccel

In summary

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.