cockle
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“When our team went back a year later, it was just covered in cockle shells,” Barber said.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023
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
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
The story of how 23 Chinese cockle pickers lost their lives in Morecambe Bay is to be made into a musical.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2016
And in the Muses it is written— There is the cockle, which we call the tellis; Believe me, that is most delicious meat.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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
Found in the warm, equatorial waters of the Indo-Pacific, heart cockles have a mutually beneficial relationship with microscopic algae that live inside their tissues.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
In Swansea, he said he had a "really good experience" with cockles and laverbread and Welsh rarebit.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024
Bacteria extracted from cockles were "ingested" during high tide and showed us what the water was like over that time period.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023
The cockles of Billy’s heart, at any rate, were glowing coals.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
Gay writes: "Showers soon drench the camblet's cockled grain."
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
Only a comparatively light pressure should be given, or the lining up of the headbands or back will become cockled and detached.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost.
From The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac
Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head
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
This makes a joint free of cockling, and when dry the inking can be completed across the joint.
From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
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
Here was another hair's breadth escape; for it was nearly high water, and there ran a short cockling sea, which if the ship had struck, must very soon have bulged her.
From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis
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
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