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cockle
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cock·le1
/ ˈkäkəl/
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n.
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an edible, burrowing bivalve mollusk (genus Cardium, family Cardiidae) with a strong ribbed shell.
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(also cockleshell) poetic/lit.
a small shallow boat.
PHRASES:
warm the cockles of one's heart
give one a comforting feeling of pleasure or contentment.
cock·le2
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v. [intr.]
(of paper) bulge out in certain places so as to present a wrinkled or creased surface; pucker.
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Cockle picking is horrible work It's not a job you would want. Five minutes was enough for me
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/8/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...wages. Lancashire's cockle beds have lately become...workers only just above the cockles in the food chain. Rick...great claims for the cockle, a slightly naff seafood...over by the triads. Cockle pickers joke bitterly...Chinese vendors singing "Cockles and mussels arrive arrive...
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Cockle industry in crisis as numbers continue to drop A Mystery killer is bringing cockle fishermen to their knees. Environment reporter RICHARD YOULE looks at the problem.
Newspaper article from: South Wales Evening Post; 9/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...2003 vast swathes of cockles mysteriously died...Gower and Llanelli. Cockle numbers have also...group that monitors cockle fishing and issues...investigation monitoring the cockles' environment...Conservation. "Cockles normally spawn in...wouldn't see a young cockle properly until ...
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Swamped by cockles and mangroves
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 4/16/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...growing cockle seeds. Cockle trawling is a back...comb the mudflats for cockles and each loadful weighs...at RM55 per sack. Cockles smaller than a 20 sen...thrown back to the sea. Cockle breeder Lim Ken Chen says cockles are supplied either...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Sounds fishy but cockle industry is alive.. alive oh; MIRROR'S NICOLA MEETS FISHERMEN ON CREST OF A WAVE.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 5/25/2002; 700+ words
; ...You can tell how old a cockle is by the number of ridges on its shell 6. Cockles breed in the same way as...minute sea life. 8. A cockle picker is not allowed to fish cockles under 19mm in diameter. 9. Cockle pickers swear the shell...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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WALES: 'Cockle Cam' to keep beds open; Watching eye means safe picking and no 'boom and bust', says agency.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 9/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...9,000 tonnes of takeable cockles on the Dee Estuary currently...pounds 300 per tonne. To keep cockle levels healthy, Environment...allowing around one third of the cockles to be picked by licensed cocklers...remaining third to make sure the cockle crop regenerates for future...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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another great EU cockle-up.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 7/20/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...applied, banning cockle fishing in The Wash. Any cockles landed after midnight...he saw full cockle boats coming into...companies gathering cockles out of King...been failed, the cockles are contaminated...goes out to ban cockle-fishing in the...
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What is destroying our cockle crop? ; The cockle industry - a major employer and revenue earner in South West Wales - is reeling from a huge blow.
Newspaper article from: South Wales Evening Post; 6/25/2008; 700+ words
; The cockle industry - a major...thousands of tonnes of cockles have died mysteriously...immune system of the cockles, but pollution would...species and not just the cockles. "It would be nothing for a healthy cockle because they would...
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What is destroying our cockle crop?
Newspaper article from: South Wales Evening Post; 6/25/2008; 700+ words
; ...thousands of tonnes of cockles have died mysteriously...and what next for the cockle industry? Reporter ALEX...immune system of the cockles, but pollution would...species and not just the cockles. "It would be nothing for a healthy cockle because they would not...
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Cockle pickers banned in Wirral as stocks plummet.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 7/6/2005; 700+ words
; ...Byline: BY SAM LISTER COCKLE pickers have been banned...summer. Stocks of the cockles are so low officials...refusing to open any of the cockle beds around the peninsula...the management of the cockle fishing with protecting...estuary and while the cockles are small in size and...
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How Spain's insatiable appetite fuels a desperate pursuit of cockles in Morecambe Investigation Gangmasters questioned after migrant workers drown are small fry in an industry driven by huge overseas demand
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 2/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...countless Spanish cockles after the Prestige...Europe's finest cockle and mussel beds near...they will find the cockle. They wipe out all...refuses to take their cockles. For the British...s demand for more cockles, which is greater...want to buy every cockle in Britain," said...
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cockle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Isles, great numbers of cockles are taken annually for...Protothaca staminea, the rock cockle, is among the best known...cm) in length. Rock cockles are poor diggers and...Sea. The hard shell cockles, genus Chione, are...The giant Atlantic cockle, Dinocardium robustum...
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cockles of one heart
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
cockles of one heart one's deepest feelings; recorded from the late 17th century, and perhaps deriving from a perceived resemblance in shape between a heart and a cockle-shell.
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cockles
Book article from: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
cockles ( arkshell ) Several types of marine bivalve molluscs of genus Cardium , often sold preserved in brine or vinegar. A 50‐...
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shell-lime
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
shell-lime. Lime made from shells of cockles, oysters, etc. The spandrels of the domes over the aisles in St Paul's Cathedral, London, were made of brick covered with stucco of cockle-shell lime, which sets as hard as Portland Stone .
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bivalve
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...hinged by an elastic ligament. Bivalves, which include clams, cockles, mussels, oysters, and scallops, are an important food...through the sand or mud using the foot; some, such as the cockle shells, live on or near the surface of the ocean floor; still...
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