Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a shell like that of a cockle; inclosed in a shell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclosed in a shell.
- adjective Wrinkled; puckered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cockle .
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Examples
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I remember its lovely ageing details: the worn red brick, the cockled window glass, the weathered sandstone edgings.
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Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost.
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Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost.
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The natives are a leathery, insouciant people; well-heeled women in suggestive topcloths parade around the avenues like so many cockled peacocks, and the men are as manicured as the Egyptians, a tribe of smellsmocks and pinchfarthings jockeying for attention.
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The natives are a leathery, insouciant people; well-heeled women in suggestive topcloths parade around the avenues like so many cockled peacocks, and the men are as manicured as the Egyptians, a tribe of smellsmocks and pinchfarthings jockeying for attention.
the venitius command 2005
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There were no cockled tin gutters here to catch the moisture trickling down the walls, the floor was green and slimy with two hundred years of it.
Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955
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Handsome his library will never be, for here there will be a whole set of paper-bound volumes lacking backs, here a folio strangely patched and mended, there a book in rather dirty vellum somewhat cockled by damp, and so on.
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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I bent deftly and pilfered a little cockled cherry from between the very fingertips of her whose heart was doubtless like its -- quite hard.
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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And at some distance beyond the top of the hill he sat down on the bank beside a nettled ditch, and with his book pressed down upon the wayside grass struck a match, and holding it low in the scented, windless air turned slowly the cockled leaf.
The Return Walter De la Mare 1914
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"Not cocked – cockled" – it was Alice who said this.
The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901
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