Noun : a cockle in fabric. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : This paper cockles easily. ,The waves cockled along the shore. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The wind cockled the water. From Dictionary.com.
The fish are taken by hand-lining with "cockle" bait or by. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine] Reference
The gigantic cockle was the only thing that presented. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
Stir in half a glass of sherry and serve in cockle shells. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
"Just goin 'to have a cockle tea," explained the Corporal. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
'We cannot live in that cockle-shell!' exclaimed Mrs Auld. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
The paper will be found to cockle the mounts badly in drying. From Wordnik.com. [Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements] Reference
And he never saw anything but a cockle-shell there afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories] Reference
On further inspection, the money was found to be cockle shells. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
The only other machinery in the basement is the cockle machine. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
I look back on that "cockle tea" as one of my happiest memories. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
It does not cockle, neither does it curl while being sensitized. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882] Reference
The parables of the sower and the cockle: of the mustardseed, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
"There is a cockle-shell that skips along pretty fairly," said Willis. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
The boats they used in Mizora for that purpose were mere cockle shells. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
"What! brave this storm in a wretched seal-skin cockle-shell like that?". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
To-night, the ebb bore with it a cockle-shell on which a lad clung, shivering. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
One, a mere cockle-shell, had been perforated by bullets and rendered useless. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
Poor little pigmy in a cockle-boat, I thought Creation was ringing with my name!. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Fish, and a cockle a species of Venerupis, inhabit the brackish water of the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads] Reference
Some find their sheets strewed with chaff or cockle-burs, some find no sheets at all. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
If this shell-fish was eaten by any one of the place a cockle would grow on his nose. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
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