noun the lotium, or darnel.
2. cockle ·noun the fire chamber of a furnace.
3. cockle ·noun the dome of a heating furnace.
4. cockle ·noun a cockleshell.
5. cockle ·noun a hop-drying kiln; an oast.
6. cockle ·noun a plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (luchnis githage).
7. cockle ·noun the mineral black tourmaline or schorl;
so called by the cornish miners.
8. cockle ·vt to cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
9. cockle ·noun 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.