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cockle

[ UK /kˈɒkə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑkəɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. stir up (water) so as to form ripples
  2. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
    She puckered her lips
NOUN
  1. common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
  2. common edible European bivalve

How To Use cockle In A Sentence

  • Attention: Please do not write anything on the teaching stuff or cockle it.
  • However a red tide can have implications for marine fauna and some organisms including cockles, lugworms and sea potatoes have been washed up onto Sligo beaches as witnessed by many beach users.
  • As mentioned in your article, mussels, cockles and perlemoen were in abundance.
  • The beach is composed entirely of the shells of "pipi" (small cockles); always, therefore, dry and pleasant to walk upon. Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • In many ways this is rural France's most appealing region, an area of winding back roads, of lost-and-gone hamlets, of tree-smothered hills and of wheat fields bright with poppies and corncockles.
  • Below Greyabbey, I watched the oystercatchers breaking cockle shells on the rocks.
  • In one corner, you'll find an enclave of butchers, delicatessen and food stalls, including a cluster selling plump, briny Gower cockles and fresh laverbread. Swansea's top 10 budget eats
  • Their day-to-day diet is a mix of worms, lugworm, white rag, smashed up shellfish like razorfish, cockles and sand clams, small crabs, shrimps and even small fish, for they, like most sea fish, are a predator in their own right.
  • In the sovereign workmanship of Nature herself, what garden of flowers without weeds? what orchard of trees without worms? what field of corn without cockle? what pond of fishes without frogs? what sky of light without darkness? what mirror of knowledge without ignorance? what man of earth without frailty? what commodity of the world without discommodity? The Common Reader, Second Series
  • And some of them, such as poppies, cornflowers and corncockles are exquisitely beautiful as well.
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