cockle

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Darnel, Lolium temulentum; rye-grass, L. perenne; tare; a weed generally.
• noun The corn-rose or corn-cockle, Lychnis (Agrostemma) Githago.
• noun A young cock; a cockerel.
• noun The body or fire-chamber of an air-stove, usually made of fire-brick.
• noun A kind of kiln or stove for drying hops.
• noun In porcelain manufacturing, a large stove used for drying biscuit-ware which has been dipped in glaze, preparatory to burning.
• To cry like a cock.
• noun An Australian bivalve mollusk, Cardium tenuicostatum; also, a member of the genus Chione.
• noun A small crisp confection of sugar stiffened with flour, variously flavored, and of a pink, light-yellow, or white color. Mottoes were printed on them in red letters.
• noun A pucker or wrinkle; an unevenness, as in cloth or glass.
• noun A disease of wheat caused by a nematoid worm, Telenchus tritici, which infests the grain and causes it to become deformed.
• To pucker or contract into wrinkles, as cloth or glass.
• To rise into frequent ridges, as the waves of a chopping sea.
• To make a slight score on the cogs or teeth of a mill, as a guide for cutting off their ends, so that the whole may be given a truly circular form.
• To cause to pucker in wrinkles: as, rain will cockle silk.
• noun A mollusk of the family Cardiidæ and genus Cardium; especially, the common edible species of Europe, Cardium edule; the shell of such mollusks.
• noun An equivalve bivalve, resembling or related to mollusks of the genus Cardium.
• noun A univalve mollusk of the family Muricidæ; the murex or purple-fish.
• noun A ringlet or crimp.
• noun [See cockle, verb] The instrument used in cockling the cogs of a mill.
• noun Same as cockle, 2 .
• noun To be hanged: from the noise made while strangling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
• noun The Lotium, or darnel.
• transitive verb To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
• transitive verb waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion.
• noun (Zoöl.) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially Cardium edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
• noun A cockleshell.
• noun The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
• noun engraving The fire chamber of a furnace.
• noun A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
• noun The dome of a heating furnace.
• noun a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim.
• noun winding or spiral stairs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of several field weeds, such as the corn cockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum.
• noun Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
• noun The shell of such a mollusk.
• noun plural One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
• noun A wrinkle, pucker
• noun hence A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
• verb To wrinkle, pucker

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
• noun common edible European bivalve
• noun common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
• verb stir up (water) so as to form ripples