cockled

English

Verb

cockled

1. simple past and past participle of cockle

Adjective

cockled (not comparable)

1. (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;

Anagrams

• clocked