What's the difference between cockle and hockle?

Cockle


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A cockleshell.
  • (n.) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
  • (n.) The fire chamber of a furnace.
  • (n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
  • (n.) The dome of a heating furnace.
  • (v. t.) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
  • (n.) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
  • (n.) The Lotium, or darnel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a series of outbreaks of food-poisoning associated with the consumption of cockles, no bacterial pathogens were demonstrable either in faeces of patients or in cockles.
  • (2) The cockle Cardium tuberculatum responds with a typical escape movement (jumping by foot contractions) when touched by a starfish.
  • (3) V. cholerae was isolated from 42 per cent of shellfish tested during the epidemic, and an epidemiologic study found that a history of consumption of raw or poorly cooked cockles was significantly more common among cholera patients than among paired controls.
  • (4) Judging from my records – and in this post-NSA age, you surely know that records are kept of everyone's movements – you have been corresponding with this column for more than eight years now and your steadfastness doesn't just warm my cockles, it roasts them.
  • (5) A decade on from that terrible night when 23 men and women lost their lives searching for cockles, Hsiao-Hung Pai questions whether a similar tragedy could occur (Remember Morecambe Bay?
  • (6) The difference between London and a lot of other places is that London has been through it.” Neighbouring the Olympic stadium is Stratford indoor market, where West Indian yams sell alongside Polish sausages, cockles and whelks.
  • (7) For every cockle-warming group hug, there's Tambor, spewing bile and condescension; for every small child bursting winsomely into song, there he is again, a snout-nosed vision of pompous self-delusion.
  • (8) Forty-two elements in four standard reference materials and oyster and cockle tissue were analysed by the X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) method.
  • (9) The GLA was set up in 2006, in response to the Morecambe Bay tragedy two years earlier, when 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned.
  • (10) An investigation was carried out over a one year period to examine jointly the occurrence of faecal bacteria, salmonella and the presence of antigens associated with the hepatitis A virus (HAV) in oysters (Crassostrea gigas), mussels (Mytilus edulis, Mytilus galloprovincialis) and cockles (Cerastoderma edule), taken from 8 shellfish farming areas or natural beds along the French coast.
  • (11) Consumption of raw and partially-cooked cockles has been associated with both sporadic transmission and periodic outbreaks of hepatitis A.
  • (12) I was looking forward to celebrating my first clean sheet on Mother’s Day, but now I think I’ll be crying into my glass of wine and I hope I don’t take this out on my grandkids.” In an opening half hour memorable mainly for the bitterness of the south coast cold, neither side created much to warm the cockles.
  • (13) GC-MS analysis of the sterol trimethylsilyl ethers obtained from the cockle Cerastoderma edule has established the identity and relative proportions of the eleven sterols present.
  • (14) Watching a flushed Michael Gove perched precariously on the edge of the Conservative front bench at PMQs, the pink petalled corn cockle irresistibly sprang to mind.
  • (15) It was found that consumption of partially-cooked cockles (Anadara granosa) was significantly associated with the illness (p less than 0.001).
  • (16) Some argue that, while members of the public should be free to pick cockles, those doing it for a business should be regulated and licensed.
  • (17) The menu has five white fish, served battered or breaded with chips, but also includes scallops, oysters and classics such as jellied eels, cockles, cracked crab and potted shrimp.
  • (18) The seafood – Cromer crab, cockles, mussels and oysters – is very local, some coming from the fishermen down on the beach, or the next-door-neighbour "mussel men" who deliver to the kitchen door.
  • (19) One local resident said that around 500 people a day flocked to the area to pick the cockles, the total value of which is around £6m.
  • (20) Cockle picking is not illegal, but locals have complained after reports that groups of fishermen from across the UK were flocking to Morecambe Bay.

Hockle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hamstring; to hock; to hough.
  • (v. t.) To mow, as stubble.

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