(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.
Rumple
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.
(n.) A fold or plait; a wrinkle.
Example Sentences:
(1) A large man with a rumpled shirt, snowy beard and hair pulled into a ponytail, the commissioner resembles a hippy Santa Claus but is a tough, shrewd operator.
(2) He is sound in wind and limb, vision and hearing, his eyes sparkle, his face is scarcely rumpled by time.
(3) So how did this rumpled everyman, who dresses in T-shirts and baggy trousers to meet corporate chiefs, end up being courted by the global elite, from princes to politicians?
(4) The eternal undergraduate, all rumpled shirt, baggy cords, student specs and unkempt hair, he looks as though he's just got out of bed - which he has.
(5) A witty man, who was a curious mixture of mischief and irritability, and who always had the rumpled appearance of one who had spent the night sleeping rough, Gray was seldom seen without a cigarette in one hand and a glass in the other.
(6) The eggs produced were non-viable and the egg capsule comprised a rumpled lipid and ruptured chitin layer.
(7) Perseveringly urchin-like, he was rumpled enough to evoke Minnesota Fats' observation that dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog.
(8) Still there are no houses or cars, just hills in folds like a rumpled blanket, empty fields – and then a crowd of black cows, way off in the lee of a line of trees.
(9) A vegetarian with a penchant for cardigans and rumpled trousers, he has campaigned using public transport and carrying a rucksack.
(10) And it is true that a lot of female selfie aficionados take their visual vernacular directly from pornography (unwittingly or otherwise): the pouting mouth, the pressed-together cleavage, the rumpled bedclothes in the background hinting at opportunity.
(11) The most famous bed in contemporary art, a tangle of stained and rumpled sheets bearing expensive witness to a time of heartbreak for the artist Tracey Emin , is coming to the Tate gallery on long loan from its new owner, the German businessman and collector Count Christian Duerckheim.
(12) The result is that New Labour’s second generation often looks like a smooth, besuited set of careerists, elite members of a spadocracy against which Corbyn appears the paragon of rumpled authenticity.
(13) Somehow Corbyn looks smaller and more permanently rumpled than he actually is.
(14) Early into the administration he met the president and his economics team, "and it was just clear that rumpled professors with beards just didn't come across as being so impressive.
(15) Across the valley to the west is the rumple of a high glacier, a face of snow; to the east, a horseshoe cup of grey and green.
(16) And while both vied for the White House as crusading liberal outsiders fueled by big rallies and throngs of youthful supporters, Jackson in 1984 was the loquacious, nationally known, media-anointed heir to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, at a time when Sanders, exactly one month Jackson’s senior, was the rumpled, twice-elected socialist-independent mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
(17) Expect the long-promised marriage tax bonus , a rumpled old rabbit to pull out of the Tory top hat, the idea that a small sum will send cohabiters dashing down the aisle.
(18) And if so, how will it cope with the fact sex is now so restricted in mainstream movies it's easier to shoot a twerking Disney star than rumpled sheets on celluloid?
(19) So when Matthew Dear plays London's Boiler Room club night, with everyone else's clothing lumpen and translucent with sweat, it's a pleasure to see him imperious in an elegantly rumpled white collared shirt and gothic Teddy Boy hair.
(20) On a July evening nearly a year later, Dr Anna Pou, wearing rumpled surgical scrubs, answered a knock on her door.