# cockle
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɒkl̩/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒkəl

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

cockle (plural cockles)
* 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.
* The shell of such a mollusk.
* (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (mostly in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
* (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
* (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
* (mining, UK, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
* (UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
* (UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
* (UK) The dome of a heating furnace.

##### Derived terms

* blood cockle
* cockle-bread
* cockleman
* cockler
* cockleshell
* cocklestove
* cockle wife
* cocklewoman
* cockly
* common cockle
* corncockle
* corn cockle
* earcockle
* ear cockle
* hotcockles
* moulding of cockle bread
* warm the cockles of one's heart

##### Translations

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##### See also

* scallop

#### Verb

cockle (third-person singular simple present cockles, present participle cockling, simple past and past participle cockled)
* (transitive) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

cockle (plural cockles)
* Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
** 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section X: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.

##### Synonyms

* (Lolium temulentum): darnel, false wheat

##### Related terms

* aquatic cockle
* cocklebur
* corncockle

##### See also

* cheat
* ryegrass
* tare
* vetch

### Etymology 3

Origin uncertain.

#### Verb

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

### Etymology 4

Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.

#### Noun

cockle (plural cockles)
* (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.

### References

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

### Anagrams

* Elcock, clocke