Cockle

(kōk'l), n. [A.-S. coccel, cocel, or cocle, Ir. & Gael. cogal, cagal, Fr. coquelicot.]

1Sense 1. (Bot.) (a.) A plant or weed that grows among corn; the corn-rose, a species of Agrostemma (A. githago); (b.) The Lolium, or darnel. London.

2Sense 2. [Fr. coquille, It. cochiglia, conchiglia, from Lat. conchylium, L. Lat. conchylium, Gr. κογχύλιον, a muscle or cockle, from κογχύλη, κόγχη, a muscle or cockle. See CONCH.] (Conch.) A kind of bivalve shell-fish of the genus Cardium, especially the C. edule, having a corrugated shell.

3Sense 3. The mineral tourmaline or shorl;—so called by the Cornish miners.

4Sense 4. The body or fire-pit of an air-tight stove.

5Sense 5. A kind of stove or kiln for drying hops. Halliwell.

v. t. To contract into wrinkles resembling the ridges or ribs of the cockle-shell. Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain. Gay.

v. i. To take the form of wrinkles or ridges. “A short cockling sea which must very soon have bulged the ship.” Cook.