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What does cockle mean?

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Noun
  1. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
  2. The shell of such a mollusk.
  3. (plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
  4. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
  5. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
  6. (mining, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
  7. (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace.
  8. (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
  9. (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace.
Verb
  1. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
Noun
  1. Any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum.
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