Definition of "cockling" []

• Present participle of cockle. (verb)
• A young, small, or immature cock. (noun)

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• "We'd go cockling, too, and pick up samphire when it was in season."
• "I know most folk who ride a 'bent don't use chammy butter, but I suffer from excessive cockling."
• "He hardly ever leaves the island all summer, depending on John to bring over supplies from the mainland when he brings over the boat to go cockling at low tide."