COCKLE
\kˈɒkə͡l], \kˈɒkəl], \k_ˈɒ_k_əl]\
Definitions of COCKLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A cockleshell.
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The fire chamber of a furnace.
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The dome of a heating furnace.
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To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
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A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
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The Lotium, or darnel.
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A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; - sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
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The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; - so called by the Cornish miners.
By Oddity Software
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A cockleshell.
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The fire chamber of a furnace.
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The dome of a heating furnace.
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To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
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A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
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The Lotium, or darnel.
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A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; - sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
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The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; - so called by the Cornish miners.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A troublesome weed among wheat, with a purple flower.
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A shell-fish, having two wrinkled shells, of a heart-shape.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A plant or weed that grows among corn; the corn-rose; the darnel.
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A shell-fish with ribbed shells.
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To contract into wrinkles; to pucker of wrinkle, as cloth.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A weed that grows among corn; the corn-rose.
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A shell-fish ribbed or grooved on both sides.
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To contract into folds or wrinkles.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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