cockled

C3O1C3K5L1E1D2

adjective

Enclosed in a shell.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of cockle
adjectivecockled (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteEnclosed in a shell.

    Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockl’d snails;

    c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]

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