Clam vs. Cockle

Any of various usually burrowing marine and freshwater bivalve mollusks chiefly of the subclass Heterodonta, including members of the families Veneridae and Myidae, many of which are edible.

Any of various chiefly marine bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped shells with radiating ribs.

The soft edible body of such a mollusk.

The shell of a cockle.

(Informal) A close-mouthed person, especially one who can keep a secret.

A wrinkle; a pucker.

(Slang) A dollar

(Nautical) A cockleshell.

A clamp or vise.

Any of several weedy plants, especially the corn cockle.

To hunt for clams.

To become or cause to become wrinkled or puckered.

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example pl=s (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.

Strong pincers or forceps.

The shell of such a mollusk.

A kind of vise, usually of wood.

(in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).

A dollar.

(directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker

A Scientologist.

(by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep

A vagina.

The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.

(slang) In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note.

(UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.

(informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.

(UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.

Mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam)

(UK) The dome of a heating furnace.

Clamminess; moisture

Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).

To dig for clams.

(Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.

To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.

To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.

A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially Cardium edule, used in Europe for food; - sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

A cockleshell.

Clammy.

The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; - so called by the Cornish miners.

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

The fire chamber of a furnace.

Strong pinchers or forceps.

A hop-drying kiln; an oast.

A kind of vise, usually of wood.

The dome of a heating furnace.

Claminess; moisture.

A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

Common edible European bivalve

To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.

Common edible European bivalve mollusk having a rounded shell with radiating ribs

To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.

Stir up (water) so as to form ripples

Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud

To gather something into small wrinkles or folds;

A piece of paper money worth one dollar

Flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams

Gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean