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cockle-shell

cockle-shell
  (ˈkɒk(ə)lʃɛl)
  See cockle n.2
  1. The shell of the cockle; usually, a single valve of the shell. Formerly applied much more generally, including e.g. the scallop-shell worn by pilgrims to St. James of Compostella.

c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 904 With cokille shelles brente. 1530 Palsgr. 206/2 Cokell shell, coquille. a 1631 Drayton Noah's Flood (R.), The ark..doth so excell That ship, as that ship doth a cockle-shell. a 1711 Ken Hymnar. Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 71 They might more easily contain In Cockle-shell the whole Atlantick Main. 1747 Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 104 A pound of fresh calcined Cockle Shells. 1758 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic (ed. 3) II. 8 Let the patient..drink.. Oister or Cockle-shell Lime-Water. 1877 Blades Pref. to Caxton's Dict. ix, Wearers of the Cockle-shell, the emblems of a pilgrimage to Compostella. 1884 Lovell Edible Brit. Mollusca 44 Cockle-shells are used as cultch for the oyster spat to adhere to..The great advantage of cockle-shells cultch is, etc.

   b. A spiral gastropod shell. [F. coquille.]

1538 Leland Itin. I. 55 Writhen about with Degrees like Turninges of Cokilshilles, to cum to the Top.

  2. An imitation of a cockle or scallop-shell, e.g. in the collar of the order of St. Michael.

1488 in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 393 A collar of cokkilschellis contenand xxiiii schellis of gold.

  3. A small frail boat or vessel. Also attrib.

[Cf. 1631 in 1.] 1829 Blackw. Mag. XXVI. In a bit cockle-shell o' an open boat. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 290 Floating for thousands of miles in a cockle shell, down a turbulent stream. 1876 M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. I. 15 None but a madman would sail in yon cockle-shell with a gale coming.

   4. nonce-wd. Shallowness, unsteadiness. Obs.

1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 160 We shall find the ridicule rising full as strongly against the professors of the higher as the lower kind. Cockleshell abounds with each.

  Hence cockle-shelled a., adorned with a cockle-shell; having a cockle-shell as a badge.

1635 R. N. Camden's Hist. Eliz. i. 66 The Ensignes of the Cockle-shelled Order of Saint Michael.

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