Cockle hat, a hat ornamented with a cockleshell, the badge of a pilgrim. Shak. -- Cockle stairs, winding or spiral stairs.
Coc"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cockled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cockling (?).] [Of uncertian origin.] To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Coc"kle, n. [AS. coccel, cocel; cf. Gael. cogall tares, husks, cockle.] (Bot.) (a) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage). (b) The Lotium, or darnel.
Coc"kle*bur` (?), n. (Bot.) A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.
Coc"kled (?), a. Inclosed in a shell.
The tender horns of cockled snails.
Shak.
Coc"kled, a. Wrinkled; puckered.
Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain.
Gay.
Coc"kler (?), n. One who takes and sells cockles.
Coc"kle*shell` (?), n. 1. One of the shells or valves of a cockle.