cockle

Meaning

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

pucker

darnel

ivory shell

cow soapwort

cowcockle

bivalve mollusc

cowherb

edible cockle

piddock

flow mark

elephant skin

elephant’s peel

crowfoot cracks

mussla

shellfish type

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒkl̩/

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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