Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of cockle
- 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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cockled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cockled
“cockled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cockled. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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