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1. Common edible European bivalve
    
2. Common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs

1. Stir up (water) so as to form ripples
   - ripple, ruffle, riffle, undulate
    
2. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds
   "She cockled her lips";
   - pucker, rumple, crumple, knit

Derived forms: cockles, cockling, cockled

Type of: bivalve, crease [archaic], crinkle [archaic], crisp [archaic], flow, flux, lamellibranch, pelecypod, ruckle [archaic], scrunch [archaic], scrunch up [archaic], shellfish, wrinkle [archaic]

Part of: Cardium, Cardium edule, edible cockle, genus Cardium

Encyclopedia: Cockle, John