cockle
🇺🇸
/ˈkɑːkl/
🇬🇧
/ˈkɒkl/
noun
R
A small shellfish with a wavy shell, eaten as food.
We enjoyed a plate of steamed cockles at the seaside restaurant.
R
A tool for bending metal, used by blacksmiths.
The blacksmith used a cockle to shape the iron into a gate.
R
To make something wrinkle or crinkle.
The fabric cockled after being hung out in the sun.
translation
A small shellfish with a wavy shell, eaten as food.; A tool for bending metal, used by blacksmiths.; To make something wrinkle or crinkle.
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Plural
cockles