cockle

noun

1. common edible European bivalve

Definition categories: food, shellfish

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

Definition categories: animal, bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod

verb

1. stir up (water) so as to form ripples

Similar word(s): riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate

Definition categories: motion, flow, flux

2. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

Similar word(s): crumple, knit, pucker, rumple

Definition categories: contact, crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, wrinkle