COCKLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cockle mean? 

• COCKLE (noun)
  The noun COCKLE has 2 senses:

1. common edible European bivalve

2. common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs

  Familiarity information: COCKLE used as a noun is rare.

• COCKLE (verb)
  The verb COCKLE has 2 senses:

1. stir up (water) so as to form ripples

2. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

  Familiarity information: COCKLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCKLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common edible European bivalve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cockle" is a kind of...):

shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

Holonyms ("cockle" is a part of...):

Cardium edule; edible cockle (common edible European cockle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cockle" is a kind of...):

bivalve; lamellibranch; pelecypod (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cockle"):

Cardium edule; edible cockle (common edible European cockle)

Holonyms ("cockle" is a member of...):

Cardium; genus Cardium (type genus of the family Cardiidae: cockles)

• COCKLE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stir up (water) so as to form ripples

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cockle; riffle; ripple; ruffle; undulate

Hypernyms (to "cockle" is one way to...):

flow; flux (move or progress freely as if in a stream)

"Cockle" entails doing...:

fold; fold up; turn up (bend or lay so that one part covers the other)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

To gather something into small wrinkles or folds

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cockle; crumple; knit; pucker; rumple

Context example:

She puckered her lips

Hypernyms (to "cockle" is one way to...):

crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)

Verb group:

draw (contract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I'll send my bill, by-and-by, and tonight I'll give you something that will warm the cockles of your heart better than quarts of wine, said Laurie, beaming at her with a face of suppressed satisfaction at something.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)