cockle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.

   “His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.”

2. isim The shell of such a mollusk.
3. isim A wrinkle, pucker
4. isim A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
5. isim Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
6. isim The dome of a heating furnace.
7. isim The fire chamber of a furnace.
8. isim A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
9. isim The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
10. fiil To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
11. isim Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).

    “But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.”

12. fiil To wobble, shake; to be unsteady.

    “Israel Wilde arrived last, his ankle swollen and already berry-blue after cockling at the top of Hatherself Scout.”

13. isim A £10 note; a tenner.