Read full poem →Things that in childhood's memory dwell--
Scooped crow-pot-stone, or cockle-shell,
With wheels at hand of mallow seeds,
Dictionary Entry
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
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Common Phrases
shells cockle. cockleshell cocklepark cocklebay cocklecreek cocklecockle corncockle little
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Poetry examples for “cockle”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →With rank Geneva weeds run o'er,
And cockle, at the best, amidst the corn it bore:
The royal husbandman appeared,