Definition of "cockles" [cockles]

• Plural form of cockle. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cockle. (verb)

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• "Originally, the candies were "cockles" -- shell-shaped, wrapped in colored paper with printed sayings."
• "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."
• "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."