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English

Etymology

cockle +? bur

Noun

cocklebur (plural cockleburs)

1. Any of the coarse composite weeds of the genus Xanthium, with a prickly fruit.

Synonyms

• clotbur, Xanthium

Translations

Further reading

• Xanthium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Xanthium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?kl?/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

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 s?cocc (“cockle”)) +? -le; or perhaps from Old French coquille, from Vulgar Latin *cocchilia, from conchylia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (konkhúlion), diminutive of ??????? (konkhúl?, “mussel”), from Proto-Indo-European *konkho.

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, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
7. (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace.

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8. (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.

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9. (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace.

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Derived terms

Translations

See also

• scallop

Verb

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

1. 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).
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, X:

     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.

Synonyms

• (Lolium temulentum): darnel, false wheat

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cheat
• ryegrass
• tare
• vetch

Etymology 3

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