Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who sells cockles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who takes and sells cockles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who finds and sells cockles.

Etymologies

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cockle +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Only the night before my visit another cockler had needed rescuing off the sands.

    Restaurant review: Midland Hotel 2011

  • Print Liverpool Coastguard in more Ribble estuary cockler rescues Further rescues of cocklers have been carried out on the Ribble Estuary - the 26th in two months.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • There's no accounting for some street names, in Southport where I grew up I was always puzzled by one "Cockle-Dick's Lane" When young it was a giggle, but of course it stems from a chap calling Dick who used to live down there and he used to be a cockler on the beach.

    British Blogs 2009

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