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Noun cockle has 2 senses
- cockle - common edible European bivalve
--1 is a kind of shellfish
--1 is a part of edible cockle, Cardium edule
- cockle - common edible European bivalve mollusk having a rounded shell with radiating ribs
--2 is a kind of bivalve, pelecypod, lamellibranch
--2 is a member of Cardium, genus Cardium
--2 has particulars: edible cockle, Cardium edule
Verb cockle has 2 senses
- ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate - stir up (water) so as to form ripples
--1 is one way to flow, flux
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
- pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"
--2 is one way to wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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