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6-letter words (1 found)

COCKLE,

5-letter words (3 found)

CLECK,CLOCK,CLOKE,

4-letter words (7 found)

COCK,COKE,COLE,ECCO,KOEL,LOCK,LOKE,

3-letter words (7 found)

CEL,COL,ECO,ELK,LEK,OKE,OLE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EL,KO,LO,OE,OK,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from cockle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cockle

cockle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒkl̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɒkəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English cokel, cokkel, kokkel, cocle, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a diminutive of Middle English cokke, cok (cockle), from Old English cocc (found in sǣcocc (cockle)) +‎ -le; or perhaps from Old French coquille, from Vulgar Latin *cocchilia, from conchylia, from Ancient Greek κογχύλιον (konkhúlion), diminutive of κογχύλη (konkhúlē, mussel), of Pre-Greek substrate origin.

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

  1. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
  2. The shell of such a mollusk.
  3. (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
  4. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
  5. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
  6. (mining, UK, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
  7. (UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
  8. (UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
  9. (UK) The dome of a heating furnace.
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See also
  • scallop

Verb

cockle (third-person singular simple present cockles, present participle cockling, simple past and past participle cockled)

  1. (transitive) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.

Etymology 2

Wikispecies

Wikispecies From Middle English cockil, cokil, cokylle, from Old English coccel (darnel), of unknown origin, perhaps from a diminutive of Latin coccus (berry).

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

  1. Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
Synonyms
  • (Lolium temulentum): darnel, false wheat
Related terms
Translations
See also
  • cheat
  • ryegrass
  • tare
  • vetch

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain.

Verb

cockle (third-person singular simple present cockles, present participle cockling, simple past and past participle cockled)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England, Midlands) To wobble, shake; to be unsteady. [from 17th c.]

Etymology 4

Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

  1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.

References

Anagrams

  • Elcock, clocke

Source: wiktionary.org