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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

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