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- noun Plural form of
cockal .
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Examples
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Hucklebone is the hip-bone but in the plural it applies to our cockals or cockles: Latham gives
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Hucklebone is the hip-bone but in the plural it applies to our cockals or cockles:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Morn grew white and the dawn broke forth in light; when she put in his pocket four cockals [FN#411] and went away.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And he answered, "I found four cockals in my pocket."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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’Tis as if she said to thee, in the language of signs,414 ‘An thou wert in love, thou wouldst not sleep, for a lover sleepeth not: but thou hast not ceased to be a child and fit for nothing but to play with these cockals.
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And she answered, "'Tis as if she said to thee, in the language of signs, [FN#414] 'An thou wert in love, thou wouldst not sleep, for a lover sleepeth not: but thou hast not ceased to be a child and fit for nothing but to play with these cockals.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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