What does "cockle" mean?

Cockle: A cockleshell.

Additional senses

  1. 2.The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners. Raymond.
  2. 3.The fire chamber of a furnace. [Eng.] Knight.
  3. 4.A hop-drying kiln; an oast. Knight.
  4. 5.The dome of a heating furnace. Knight. Cockle hat, a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim. Shak. -- Cockle stairs, winding or spiral stairs.
  5. 6.To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting. Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  6. 7.(a) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage). (b) The Lotium, or darnel.

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