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/ˈkɒkl̩/ · noun
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells..
His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.
But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
Israel Wilde arrived last, his ankle swollen and already berry-blue after cockling at the top of Hatherself Scout.
Use cockle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cockle means Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells..
Common synonyms include darnel, false wheat, draw, undulate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.
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