cockle

  1. Noun.  Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family ''Cardiidae'', having heart-shaped shells.
  2. Noun.  The shell of such cockle.
  3. Noun.  (context, plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
  4. Noun.  (context, directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker.
  5. Noun.  ''hence'' A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep.
  6. Verb.  To wrinkle, pucker.
  7. Noun.  Any of several field weeds, such as the corn cockle.

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