Word Finder - cockles

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Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.

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The shell of such a mollusk.

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(in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).

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(directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker

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(by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep

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The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.

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The fire chamber of a furnace.

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A kiln for drying hops; an oast.

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The dome of a heating furnace.

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

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Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).

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A £10 note; a tenner.

The cockles are gathered by the simple process.

The group of 16 Chinese men are believed to have been heading to Morecambe Bay to pick cockles.

Using a teaspoon, remove the cockles from the shell and set aside.

This increase was attributable to the deaths of 21 migrant workers who drowned while harvesting cockles at Morecambe Bay in February this year.

My sense of place found a plate of large juicy sweet cockles on a bed of crisp green samphire before me.

But there's more to Margate than chips, cockles, ice-cream, doughnuts, Pina Colada and lobster vindaloo.

Against some trippy visuals a solitary dancefloor warrior shakes himself through out whilst the venue's cockles begin to warm up.

But there 's more to Margate than chips, cockles, ice-cream, doughnuts, Pina Colada and lobster vindaloo.

These organisms live in cockles, oysters and other lamellibranchs and they so affect the gonads of these molluscs as to castrate and sterilize their host.

In the cockles, in Cardium and in Trigonia, it is capable of a sudden stroke, which causes the animal to jump when out of the water, in the latter genus to a FIG.

The annual value of the shell-fish (lobsters, crabs, oysters, mussels, clams, periwinkles, cockles, shrimps) is about £73,000.

The cod, ling and herring fisheries are important, and the coasts abound with shell-fish, especially cockles, for which it has always been famous.

Here's a story to warm the cockles of your heart, Scully.

Larger hand gathered cockles attract higher prices (£ 400 - £ 1000 / t ).

The islanders go out collecting cockles from the wet sand.

It was not contested that BP had taken the cockles and so this constituted a technical defense.

Test samples of live cockles, previously taken once a month, are now taken each week from the beds.

Cooked fresh cockles have a flavor quite unlike those which have been doused in vinegar - a real taste of the sea.