cockle

cock·le ¹  (kkl)

n.

1. Any of various bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped shells with radiating ribs.

2. The shell of a cockle.

3. A wrinkle; a pucker.

4. Nautical A cockleshell.

intr. & tr.v. cock·led, cock·ling, cock·les

To become or cause to become wrinkled or puckered.

Idiom:

cockles of (one's) heart

One's innermost feelings: The valentine warmed the cockles of my heart.

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[Middle English cokel, from Old French coquille, shell, from Vulgar Latin *cochillia, from Latin conchyllium, from Greek konkhulion, diminutive of konkh, mussel.]

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cock·le ²  (kkl)

n.

Any of several weedy plants, especially the corn cockle.

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[Middle English cokkel, from Old English coccel, from Medieval Latin *cocculus, diminutive of Latin coccus, kermes berry, from Greek kokkos.]

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cockle¹

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any sand-burrowing bivalve mollusc of the family Cardiidae, esp Cardium edule (edible cockle) of Europe, typically having a rounded shell with radiating ribs

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of certain similar or related molluscs

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) short for cockleshell [1]

4. a wrinkle or puckering, as in cloth or paper

5. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) a small furnace or stove

cockles of one's heart one's deepest feelings (esp in the phrase warm the cockles of one's heart)

vb

to contract or cause to contract into wrinkles

[from Old French coquille shell, from Latin conchȳlium shellfish, from Greek konkhulion, diminutive of konkhule mussel; see conch]

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cockle²

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several plants, esp the corn cockle, that grow as weeds in cornfields

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cockle - common edible European bivalve       Cardium edule, edible cockle - common edible European cockle shellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
	2.	cockle - common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod - marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together Cardium, genus Cardium - type genus of the family Cardiidae: cockles Cardium edule, edible cockle - common edible European cockle
Verb	1.	cockle - stir up (water) so as to form ripples ripple, ruffle, undulate, riffle flow, flux - move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
	2.	cockle - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" pucker, rumple, crumple, knit draw - contract; "The material drew after it was washed in hot water" crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle, scrunch - make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"

Translations

cockle [ˈkɒkl] N (Zool) → berberecho m
to warm the cockles of sb's heart → llenar a algn de ternura

cockle [ˈkɒk^əl] n (= shellfish) → coque f

cockle

n

(= shellfish: also cockleshell) → Herzmuschel f

(= boat) → kleines Boot, Nussschale f

it warmed the cockles of my heart → es wurde mir warm ums Herz

cockle [ˈkɒkl] n (shellfish) → cardio
it warmed the cockles of my heart → mi riempì il cuore di gioia

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cockle [ˈkɒkl] n (shellfish) → cardio
it warmed the cockles of my heart → mi riempì il cuore di gioia