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- noun Plural form of
cockle . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cockle .
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Examples
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Originally, the candies were "cockles" -- shell-shaped, wrapped in colored paper with printed sayings.
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Originally, the candies were "cockles" -- shell-shaped, wrapped in colored paper with printed sayings.
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Originally, the candies were "cockles" -- shell-shaped, wrapped in colored paper with printed sayings.
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Originally, the candies were "cockles" -- shell-shaped, wrapped in colored paper with printed sayings.
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Originally, the candies were "cockles" -- shell-shaped, wrapped in colored paper with printed sayings.
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But to himself he said, “They are burning” — an allusion to the game of hot cockles, which is indeed a childlike symbol of the dreadful struggle between justice and the criminal.
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They were of all types: skiffs and wherries and canoes and snub-nosed punts, with a great number of short, sharply rounded craft, new to my American observance, and called cockles, very precisely adapted to contain one girl, who had to sit with her eyes firmly fixed on the young man with the oars, lest a glance to this side or that should oversee the ticklishly balanced shell.
London Films William Dean Howells 1878
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The shelves are stocked with bags of English creamy toffees, jars of saltwater clams called cockles, Marmite yeast spread (think Vegemite), crisps (potato chips, a staple at British pubs) and the Heinz Beans that Brits love so.
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The shelves are stocked with bags of English creamy toffees, jars of saltwater clams called cockles, Marmite yeast spread (think Vegemite), crisps (potato chips, a staple at British pubs) and the Heinz Beans that Brits love so.
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But to himself he said, "They are burning" -- an allusion to the game of hot cockles, which is indeed a childlike symbol of the dreadful struggle between justice and the criminal.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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