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.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. A cockleshell.
- noun. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
- noun. The fire chamber of a furnace.
- noun. A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
- noun. The dome of a heating furnace.
- transitive verb. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
- noun. A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
- noun. The Lotium, or darnel.
- noun. common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- noun. common edible European bivalve
- verb. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
"She puckered her lips"
- verb. stir up (water) so as to form ripples
Synonyms
crumple, knit, pucker, rumple, riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate
Common word forms
cockled, cockler, cockles, cockling
Words from these letters
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