Cockle

[58: 1] In Dorsetshire the Cockle is the bur of the Burdock. Barnes '

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

a place anciently called Cockle-Hall, now Coghill Hall, in Yorkshire; or perhaps from the residence of one of the family on a hill near the river Cocke, which runs through the country.

A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

In Shakespeare's time the word "Cockle" was becoming restricted to the

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

The actress Busy Phillips (she of "Cougartown") and the musician Joanna Newsom (she of the quirky songs "Peach, Plum, Pear" and "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie," a cowrie being a type of sea snail) hosted this particular affair for their pal Ms. Neuwirth.

Diamonds and Best Friends Marshall Heyman 2011

As much as I've always longed to own a genuine Chico, I suspect flim-flammery as the bicycle pictured is clearly a Ciöcc--which looks like it should be pronounced "Crotch" but which the cycling cognoscenti know is actually pronounced "Cockle."

The Indignity of Winter: Sights Repulsive and Glorious BikeSnobNYC 2010

Cockle Byles, of the Bengal Service; she, who turned up her little nose at Essex Temple, Q.C., and connected with the noble house of

The Book of Snobs 2006

"We thought we could do this and our confidence was a big help because we had won 15 straight," said Pacific guard Tom Cockle, who went 3-of-4 from the arc and scored 11 points.

USATODAY.com 2004

Cockle - an annual weed that tends to choke out wheat or other grain.

Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

Salem whose Name was Cockle petitioned the justices of the Superiour Court, at their Session in

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961

Mr. Oxenbridge Thatcher whose amiable manners and pure principles, united to a very easy and musical Eloquence, made him very popular, was united with Otis, and Mr. Gridley alone appeared for Cockle the Petitioner, in Support of his Writ.

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961