cockle
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She hopes new cockle research will help explain how changing ocean acidity and marine heat affect the transmission or lethal effects of the cancer, and offer methods to protect other native shellfish.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
The bay, where 23 Chinese cockle pickers died in 2004, is notorious for quicksand, fast-rising tides, swirling currents and deep tidal channels.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021
Shell Beach is made up of billions of shells, specifically cockle shells that breed unchecked due to the high salinity of the water and the lack of predators able to survive in all that salt.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2017
Besides the warehouse separator, which is made in different types and sizes, grading and sorting cylinders, and what are known as cockle and barley cylinders, are much used in the screen house.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
And the vision of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought or, indeed, Elon Musk being frog-marched off to the hoosegow will warm the cockles of many a heart.
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
To maintain this close bond, heart cockles have mastered the art of indoor gardening, directing light to their otherwise dark interiors.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
"But there's certain things we do in Wales brilliantly like cockles, oysters, lamb, chorizo and Welsh whisky - and they signposted me to dishes I could try or ingredients I could use in dishes."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023
Large cockles can filter three liters per hour and this concentrating effect was so powerful that we found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the cockles even when we couldn't detect them in water samples.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023
It was a scene to warm the cockles of your heart.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
But even laying aside the question of the coagulation of the albumen, the paper, unless it is ironed, remains so "cockled up," that it is not only unsightly, but very difficult to use.
From Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
The leaves of a vellum book that have become cockled from damp or other causes may be flattened by damping them, pulling them out straight, and allowing them to dry under pressure.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
He further carried this out afterwards in the application of the deeper coloured, and usually softer, varnishes, which when manipulated by other masters of the same school, have frizzled or cockled from some cause.
From Antonio Stradivari by Horace William Petherick
By them the oarage of the wind was taught, And how the quick tail steered the cockled boat.
From Poems New and Old by John Freeman
Plancine's swimming eyes looked down, looked upon a litter of perished rags of paper, and, lying in the midst of the rubbish, an ancient stained and cockled miniature of a powdered Louis Seize coquette.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
It is 10 years since the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy when the notorious tides and channels claimed the lives of 23 Chinese cockle workers.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2014
Why should she pretend not to know a friend—least of all when she’d been cockling?
From Pixie O'Shaughnessy by William H. C. Groome
Will you want me, uncle? because, if not, I shall go out early with Bill Corbett cockling.
From A Chapter of Adventures by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
I thought all this, and I believe my companions had very similar thoughts as we danced up and down on the short cockling sea.
From Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore by Gordon Browne
The book may now be shut up if a waterproof sheet is put at each end to prevent the damp of the cover from cockling the paper.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
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