cockle : Idioms & Phrases


Cockle hat

  • a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim. Shak.
Webster 1913

Cockle stairs

  • winding or spiral stairs.
Webster 1913

cockle-bur

  • noun any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
    cockleburr; cocklebur; cockle-bur.
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cockle-burr

  • noun any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
    cockleburr; cocklebur; cockle-bur.
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Cockling sea

  • waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Webster 1913

Corn cockle

  • noun European annual having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America
    corn campion; Agrostemma githago; crown-of-the-field.
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  • (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma ∨ Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields.
Webster 1913

cow cockle

  • noun European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort
    Vaccaria hispanica; Vaccaria pyramidata; cowherb; Saponaria vaccaria.
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edible cockle

  • noun common edible European cockle
    Cardium edule.
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white cockle

  • noun bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
    evening lychnis; Lychnis alba; bladder campion; white campion; Silene latifolia.
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