cockled
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
cockled
- simple past and past participle of cockle
Adjective[edit]
cockled (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Enclosed in a shell.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Love's feeling is more soft and sensible
Than are the tender horns of cockl’d snails;