Clam vs. Cockle

Clam and Cockle Definitions
Clam
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.
Cockle
Any of various chiefly marine bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped shells with radiating ribs.
Clam
The soft edible body of such a mollusk.
Cockle
The shell of a cockle.
Clam
(Informal) A close-mouthed person, especially one who can keep a secret.
Cockle
A wrinkle; a pucker.
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Clam
(Slang) A dollar
Owed them 75 clams.
Cockle
(Nautical) A cockleshell.
Clam
A clamp or vise.
Cockle
Any of several weedy plants, especially the corn cockle.
Clam
To hunt for clams.
Cockle
To become or cause to become wrinkled or puckered.
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Clam
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.
Cockle
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
Clam
Strong pincers or forceps.
Cockle
The shell of such a mollusk.
Clam
A kind of vise, usually of wood.
Cockle
(in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
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Clam
A dollar.
Those sneakers cost me fifty clams!
Cockle
(directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
Clam
A Scientologist.
Cockle
(by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
Clam
A vagina.
Cockle
The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
Clam
(slang) In musicians' parlance, a wrong or misplaced note.
Cockle
(UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
Clam
(informal) One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
Cockle
(UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
Clam
Mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam)
Cockle
(UK) The dome of a heating furnace.
Clam
Clamminess; moisture
Cockle
Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
Clam
To dig for clams.
Cockle
(Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
Clam
To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
Cockle
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
Clam
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
Cockle
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.
Clam
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
Cockle
A cockleshell.
Clam
Clammy.
Cockle
The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; - so called by the Cornish miners.
Clam
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.
You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure.
Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a cockle; it lieth under the sand.
Cockle
The fire chamber of a furnace.
Clam
Strong pinchers or forceps.
Cockle
A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
Clam
A kind of vise, usually of wood.
Cockle
The dome of a heating furnace.
Clam
Claminess; moisture.
Cockle
A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
Clam
A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
Cockle
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
Clam
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again.
Cockle
Common edible European bivalve
Clam
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
Cockle
Common edible European bivalve mollusk having a rounded shell with radiating ribs
Clam
To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
Cockle
Stir up (water) so as to form ripples
Clam
Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud
Cockle
To gather something into small wrinkles or folds;
She puckered her lips
Clam
A piece of paper money worth one dollar
Clam
Flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
Clam
Gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean