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cockle

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒkl̩/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ccekloStarts with CEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

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

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