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Definition of cockles:

(n) : Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
(n) : The shell of such a mollusk.
(n) : (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
(n) : (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
(v) : (transitive) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
(n) : Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).

Definition of cockles:

(n) : Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
(n) : The shell of such a mollusk.
(n) : (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
(n) : (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
(v) : (transitive) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
(n) : Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).

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