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cockle Definition


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cockle1
noun
    1. Any of about 200 species of edible bivalve shellfish with a rounded and ribbed shell.
Idiom: warm the cockles of the heart
    colloq
    To delight and gladden someone.
Etymology: 14c: French coquille shell.




cockle2
noun
    1. A cornfield weed, especially the corncockle.


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