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Meanings of
cockle
in inglês
catalão
onejar
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Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.
ripple
ruffle
riffle
undulate
catalão
onejar
português
amassar
catalão
arrugar-se
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To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.
knit
crumple
pucker
rumple
português
amassar
Sinônimos
Examples for "
knit
"
knit
crumple
pucker
rumple
Examples for "
knit
"
1
Participants described
close
-
knit
communities with limited access to confidential reproductive health care.
2
Everyone is different; sometimes personalities
knit
nicely together, other times they don't.
3
We bring in the raw material, and the women
knit
it up.
4
The woman
knit
her brows; the problem set her was too difficult.
5
Lucy was silent for a minute; her brows were
knit
in thought.
1
But now, as Government revenues
crumple
,
radical reform has become a necessity.
2
I thought Sir Henry was going to
crumple
up in his chair.
3
She smoothed it out, and the
crumple
transferred itself to her forehead.
4
He saw the derringer fall and Kao
crumple
up like a jackknife.
5
Afraid that if I looked away, she might
crumple
to the floor.
1
She considered the estimate with the prettiest
pucker
of her meditative brows.
2
And perforce she smiled in return, a
pucker
appearing between her eyebrows.
3
There was a droll little
pucker
at the corner of her mouth.
4
His face was very pale and drawn into a
pucker
of pain.
5
She peered out the window, an ugly little
pucker
creasing her forehead.
1
This was perhaps because she disliked to
rumple
her beautifully starched skirts.
2
She turned to
rumple
the smooth light thatch of his hair.
3
His outfit was a color-clashing, coffee-stained
rumple
that stank of cigarettes and sweat.
4
Besides, children are sticky little creatures who babble and cling and
rumple
clothing.
5
Perhaps Clara had been afraid Peggy would
rumple
her dress.
Usage of
cockle
in inglês
1
The parables of the sower and the
cockle
:
of the mustardseed, etc.
2
Stir in half a glass of sherry and serve in
cockle
shells.
3
An important fish nursery that was once home to rich
cockle
beds.
4
The paper will be found to
cockle
the mounts badly in drying.
5
I had never been in such a
cockle
-
shell
of a steamer before.
6
We have not inquired specially as to the fate of this
cockle
.
7
You would probably think it a
cockle
:
but you would be wrong.
8
But Shibli Bagarag said, 'Nought save a loan of the
cockle
-
shell
,
King!'
9
The only other machinery in the basement is the
cockle
machine.
10
A community
cockle
count in Pauatahanui Inlet is a long-running citizen science project.
11
Twelve
cockle
-
shells
and a half-penny china figure were ranged solemnly along the mantel-shelf.
12
A hole had been torn in the canvas, and the
cockle
-
shell
was foundering.
13
The boats they used in Mizora for that purpose were mere
cockle
shells.
14
She tossed another
cockle
his way before she went off on her own.
15
Good and evil, like wheat and
cockle
,
grow together, in the same field.
16
Beneath her pillow is the
cockle
-
shell
;
grasp it, but gaze not upon her.'
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
cockle
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
chinese cockle
little cockle
mere cockle
blue cockle
buy a cockle
More collocations
Translations for
cockle
catalão
onejar
ondejar
ondular
arrugar-se
arrugar
xafar
aixafar
português
amassar
Cockle
through the time
Cockle
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common