Dictionary Entry
cockle
cockle is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 13 senses
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- 1noun
A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
- 2noun
A cockleshell.
- 3noun
The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
- 4noun
The fire chamber of a furnace.
- 5noun
A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
- 6noun
The dome of a heating furnace.
- 7transitive verb
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
- 8noun
A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
- 9noun
The Lotium, or darnel.
- 10noun
common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- 11noun
common edible European bivalve
- 12verb
to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
"She puckered her lips"
- 13verb
stir up (water) so as to form ripples
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