Definitions of cockle

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

2. To contract into wrinkles; to pucker of wrinkle, as cloth.

3. To contract into folds or wrinkles.

4. common edible European bivalve mollusk having a rounded shell with radiating ribs

5. A cockleshell.

6. The fire chamber of a furnace.

7. The dome of a heating furnace.

8. A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose ( Luchnis Githage).

9. The Lotium, or darnel.

10. 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.

11. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; - so called by the Cornish miners.

12. An eatable shellfish; the plant corncockle or darnel; a cockboat.

13. A troublesome weed among wheat, with a purple flower.

14. A shell- fish, having two wrinkled shells, of a heart- shape.

15. A weed; bivalve shell fish.

16. A weed that grows among grain.

17. An edible European bivalve.

18. A plant or weed that grows among corn; the corn- rose; the darnel.

19. A shell- fish with ribbed shells.

20. A weed that grows among corn; the corn- rose.

21. A shell- fish ribbed or grooved on both sides.