cockle : Idioms & Phrases
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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
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noun any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs
cockleburr; cocklebur; cockle-bur.
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cockle-burr
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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
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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
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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
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noun common edible European cockle
Cardium edule.
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white cockle
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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.