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