COCKLES Synonyms

• meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

• invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

• used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)

• marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together

• invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell

• black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine

• marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.

• one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

• edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

• thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

• edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

• decorate an edge with scallops

• bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

• form scallops in

• fish for scallops

• shape or cut in scallops

• fall apart

• fold or collapse

• to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

• become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

• weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

• a fabric made by knitting

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine

• make (textiles) by knitting

• tie or link together

• to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

• an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

• to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

• draw together into folds or puckers

• become wrinkled or drawn together

• a small wave on the surface of a liquid

• shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners

• twitch or flutter

• look through a book or other written material

• stir up (water) so as to form ripples

• shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix

• a small wave on the surface of a liquid

• (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value

• stir up (water) so as to form ripples

• flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise

• a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

• a high tight collar

• a noisy fight

• stir up (water) so as to form ripples

• trouble or vex

• to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

• discompose

• twitch or flutter

• mix so as to make a random order or arrangement

• erect or fluff up

• disturb the smoothness of

• pleat or gather into a ruffle

• disturb the smoothness of

• to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

• become wrinkled or crumpled or creased

• having a wavy margin and rippled surface

• stir up (water) so as to form ripples

• occur in soft rounded shapes

• move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

• increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves