Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who sells cockles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who takes and sells cockles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who finds and sells
cockles .
Etymologies
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cockle + -er
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Examples
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Only the night before my visit another cockler had needed rescuing off the sands.
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Print Liverpool Coastguard in more Ribble estuary cockler rescues Further rescues of cocklers have been carried out on the Ribble Estuary - the 26th in two months.
BBC News - Home 2011
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There's no accounting for some street names, in Southport where I grew up I was always puzzled by one "Cockle-Dick's Lane" When young it was a giggle, but of course it stems from a chap calling Dick who used to live down there and he used to be a cockler on the beach.
British Blogs 2009
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