The shell of such a mollusk.
The fire chamber of a furnace.
The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
A wrinkle, pucker
The dome of a heating furnace.
One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
A £10 note; a tenner.
A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.
A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.