Cockle

·noun The Lotium, or darnel.

II. Cockle ·noun The fire chamber of a furnace.

III. Cockle ·noun The dome of a heating furnace.

IV. Cockle ·noun A Cockleshell.

V. Cockle ·noun A hop-drying kiln; an Oast.

VI. Cockle ·noun A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).

VII. Cockle ·noun The mineral black tourmaline or schorl;

— so called by the Cornish miners.

VIII. Cockle ·vt To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.

IX. Cockle ·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.