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  Cockle may refer to:

  • Cockle (bivalve)
    Cockle (bivalve)

    Cockle is the common name for a group of small, edible, saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Cardiidae.Various species of cockles live in sandy sheltered beaches throughout the world....
  • Cockle (weed)
    Lolium temulentum

    Lolium temulentum, typically known as darnel or cockle, is an annual plant that forms part of the Poaceae family and part of the Lolium genus....
  • Berwick cockle
    Berwick cockle

    A Berwick cockle is a Scotland style confectionary coloured white with red stripes originally associated with Berwick-upon-Tweed, England. They are presumably named in reference to their cockle shape, the moulding process giving a flattened shape with an equatorial rib....
    s, a confectionery from Scotland
  • The phrase 'warm the cockles of one's heart' refers to the ventricle
    Ventricle (heart)

    In the heart, a ventricle is a heart chamber which collects blood from an atrium and pumps it out of the heart.In a four-chambered heart, such as that in humans, there are two ventricles: the right ventricle pumps blood into the pulmonary circulation for the lungs, and the left ventricle pumps blood into the systemic cir...
    s of the heart
    Heart

    The heart is a muscle organ in all vertebrates responsible for pumping blood through the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions, or a similar structure in annelids, mollusks, and arthropods....
     (Latin: cochleae cordis)
  • Cockle: Cockney rhyming slang for £10