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cockle

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cockle1

▶noun

1 an edible burrowing bivalve mollusc with a strong ribbed shell. [Genus Cardium.]

2 (also cockleshell) literary a small shallow boat.

– phrases
warm the cockles of one's heart give one a comforting feeling of contentment.

– derivatives
cockler noun,
cockling noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. coquille ‘shell’, based on Gk konkhulion, from konkhē ‘conch’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cockle2

▶verb (of paper) wrinkle or pucker.

– origin C16: from Fr. coquiller ‘blister (bread in cooking)’, from coquille (see cockle1).

'cockle' also found in these Oxford entries:

cocklebur - conch - coquina - corncockle

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