cockleshelln.

Brit.

/ˈkɒklʃɛl/, U.S.

/ˈkɑk(ə)lˌʃɛl/

Forms: see cockle n.² and shell n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cockle n.², shell n.

Etymology: < cockle n.² + shell n. With sense 4 compare Middle French, French coquille snail-shell (see cockle n.²).With cockle-shelled adj. at Derivatives compare cockled adj.¹

I. The shell of a cockle or scallop, and related senses.

a. The shell of a cockle (cockle n.² 1a), esp. a single valve of the shell; occasionally as a mass noun. Cf. cockle n.² 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Pectinidae > genus Pecten > member of > shell of

cockle1415

cockleshell?1440

scallop-shell1530

freel1637

scallop1639

frill1713

Jacob's shell1757

petuncle1854

skimmer shell1880

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Cardiadae > member of (cockle) > cockle-shell

cockle1415

cockleshell?1440

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 904 With cokul shellis [c1450 Bodl. Add. cokille shelles] brent.

1562 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 3rd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont i. f. 28 Burne cockle shels of the sea, and Olibanum, asmuch of the one as of the other.

1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 103 The Arke..doth so excell That Ship, as that ship doth a Cockle shell.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 129 About the City of Volterra there are many beds of earth..which do abound with true Cochle-shells that have suffered no change at all.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 71 in Wks. (1721) II. They might more easily contain In Cockle-shell the whole Atlantick Main.

1755 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 5) 102 Take..four Quarts of Water on a Pound of fresh calcined Oyster-shells and Cockle-shells.

1884 M. S. Lovell Edible Mollusca Great Brit. & Ireland (ed. 2) 44 Cockle-shells are used as cultch for the oyster spat to adhere to.

1944 H. Footner Rivers of E. Shore 137 For currency, the Nanticokes used ‘roanoke’ and ‘peake’, sometimes called ‘wampum-peake’, two kinds of shell... Peake, white in color, was made of cockleshell.

1994 Independent (Nexis) 25 July (Weekend section) 25 A mile-long, half-mile-wide gleam of white sand, littered with weather-bleached cockle shells.

2011 Fortean Times Mar. 42/1 In 1985, excavations at the Cueva de los Aviones, a cave in Murcia, south-east Spain, found cockleshells perforated as if to be hung on a necklace.

b. A scallop shell, or an imitation or representation of this, as the badge or emblem of a person, group, etc.; esp. this as the emblem of St James the Great, worn by pilgrims who have visited his shrine at Compostela in Spain or as a badge of pilgrimage more generally. Cf. cockle n.² 1c.With quots. 1488, 1621 cf. Order of the Cockle at cockle n.² Phrases 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > pilgrim's garb > items of attire > [noun] > token > shell

shell1362

scallop?a1400

cockleshell1488

scallop-shell1530

Jacob's shell1757

cockle1962

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

1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 76 They wore a collar wouen with Cockle shells, the word, Immensi tremor Oceani.

1773 F. Grose Antiq. Eng. & Wales I. Cumberland Pl. vii In the east window, under a coat armorial of three cockle-shells, are the following lines.

1861 Westm. Rev. Apr. 365 Voltaire is generally as weak in his theological arguments as in his famous explanation of the vestiges of shelly formations found in the Alps, by the hypothesis of pilgrims having let fall their cockleshells while crossing the Great St. Bernard.

1979 E. B. Gatbonton Heritage of Saints 183 His [sc. St James the Greater's] emblems are the sword, and he is shown riding a horse; or, when depicted as a pilgrim, a hat, a cockleshell, a staff and a wallet.

2012 K. Oakes Radical Reinvention viii. 203 I've wanted to go on pilgrimage since I read about the Camino de Santiago de Compostela route through Northern Spain. Pilgrims there wear a cockle shell for identification.

†2. figurative. Apparently: shallowness or unsteadiness. Obsolete.An isolated use.

ΚΠ

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iii. i. 160 We shall find The Ridicule rising full as strongly against the Professors of the higher as the lower kind. Cockleshell abounds with each.

3. A small shallow boat, canoe, etc., esp. when considered likely to sink or be overturned or broken apart in storms, rough waters, etc. Cf. Compounds, cockle n.² 2b.Quot. 1630 at sense 1a may imply earlier currency of this sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel > small boat > and fragile

bauble1596

walnut-shell1614

cockleshell1786

wash-deck tub1878

1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xix. 105 Three Sail of Vessels appeared in the Channel: and four more were sailing down the River Wever, apparently just under the Balloon, diminishing to mere Cockle-shells, or like Boats which have no Rigging.

1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 290 Floating for thousands of miles in a cockle shell, down a turbulent stream.

1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter I. 15 None but a madman would sail in yon cockle-shell with a gale coming.

1913 Sat. Evening Post 22 Feb. 10/3 The striker had come down from aloft and was standing face forward in the little cockleshell, rowing rapidly away.

2013 Wisconsin Mag. Hist. 96 21/1 Lake Winnebago is a notable inland sea, and the canoeist feels fairly lost, in his little cockle shell, bobbing about over its great waves.

†II. Other types of shell.

4. A spiral gastropod shell. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > shell

cockleshella1552

conch-shell1697

concha1755

conch1773

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 46 Writhen about with Degrees like Turninges of Cokilshilles, to cum to the Top.

1614 J. Brinsley tr. M. Cordier Dialogues iv. xxxvii. 462 (margin) The greece going vp round like a cocle shell.

1699 J. Drake & A. Baden tr. D. Le Clerc Hist. Physick ii. vii. 124 The interiour part of the ear, which winding in the form of a Cockle-shell, and being joynd to the highest part of the body like a little Bell, discerns all the impulsions of the air that enter into it.

1865 T. S. Lambert Systematic Human Physiol., Anat., & Hygiene ii. iii. 312 The Cochlea is, as its name signifies, like a cockle-shell in shape, and is constructed with a spiral cavity like that in the cockle, turned nearly three times round its axis, and rising with each turn.

Compounds

With other nouns, with the sense ‘that is (a) cockleshell’ (in sense 3), as cockleshell boat, cockleshell canoe, etc.In some quots. passing into adjectival use.

ΚΠ

1704 D. Defoe Storm ii. 22 If the Japoneses, the East Indians, and such like Navigators, were to come with their thin Cockle-shell Barks and Calico Sails..there hardly comes a March or a September in twenty Years but would blow them to Pieces.

1796 J. C. Cross Parnassian Bagatelles 63 I've heard cannons roar, thunder rattle, Stemm'd the surge in a cockle-shell boat.

1865 E. H. Walshe Golden Hills xxiii. 163 Scanlan stood up—always a perilous action in these cockleshell canoes.

1895 A. J. Kenealy Boat Sailing in Fair Weather & Foul v. 60 Some of the heaviest gales known have been safely ridden out in cockleshell boats without any damage to crew, hull or gear.

1915 A. C. Laut Pioneers of Pacific Coast iii. 36 The Russian schooner would launch out a brigade of cockleshell kayaks on an unruffled stretch of sea.

2007 J. Mulvaney Axe had never Sounded Introd. p. xvii Lauding the four centuries since documented European cockleshell vessels coasted through Australian waters during 1606.

Derivatives

ˈcockle-shelled adj. having or adorned with, a scallop shell as a badge or emblem (see sense 1b); (also) covered or ornamented with cockleshells or scallop shells.

ΚΠ

1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 82 The ensignes of the Cockle-shelled Order of Saint Michael.

1893 C. G. Leland tr. H. Heine Wks. VII. v. 143 The young Henri appears as a pious pilgrim with cockle-shelled hat and staff, on which hangs a pear as if it were a decapitated head.

1924 F. M. Ford Some do Not ii. v. 432 She went away, up a cockle-shelled path.

1995 S. Carnahan 13 Stories iii. 32 We ordered sangria and peanuts and fino sherry, which we sipped while watching enormous somnambulistic cockroaches work their way down the cockle-shelled wall.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cockleshell
释义	cockleshelln. Brit. /ˈkɒklʃɛl/, U.S. /ˈkɑk(ə)lˌʃɛl/ Forms: see cockle n.² and shell n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: cockle n.², shell n. Etymology: < cockle n.² + shell n. With sense 4 compare Middle French, French coquille snail-shell (see cockle n.²).With cockle-shelled adj. at Derivatives compare cockled adj.¹ I. The shell of a cockle or scallop, and related senses. 1. a. The shell of a cockle (cockle n.² 1a), esp. a single valve of the shell; occasionally as a mass noun. Cf. cockle n.² 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Pectinidae > genus Pecten > member of > shell of cockle1415 cockleshell?1440 scallop-shell1530 freel1637 scallop1639 frill1713 Jacob's shell1757 petuncle1854 skimmer shell1880 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > integro-pallialia > family Cardiadae > member of (cockle) > cockle-shell cockle1415 cockleshell?1440 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 904 With cokul shellis [c1450 Bodl. Add. cokille shelles] brent. 1562 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 3rd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont i. f. 28 Burne cockle shels of the sea, and Olibanum, asmuch of the one as of the other. 1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 103 The Arke..doth so excell That Ship, as that ship doth a Cockle shell. 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 129 About the City of Volterra there are many beds of earth..which do abound with true Cochle-shells that have suffered no change at all. a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 71 in Wks. (1721) II. They might more easily contain In Cockle-shell the whole Atlantick Main. 1755 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 5) 102 Take..four Quarts of Water on a Pound of fresh calcined Oyster-shells and Cockle-shells. 1884 M. S. Lovell Edible Mollusca Great Brit. & Ireland (ed. 2) 44 Cockle-shells are used as cultch for the oyster spat to adhere to. 1944 H. Footner Rivers of E. Shore 137 For currency, the Nanticokes used ‘roanoke’ and ‘peake’, sometimes called ‘wampum-peake’, two kinds of shell... Peake, white in color, was made of cockleshell. 1994 Independent (Nexis) 25 July (Weekend section) 25 A mile-long, half-mile-wide gleam of white sand, littered with weather-bleached cockle shells. 2011 Fortean Times Mar. 42/1 In 1985, excavations at the Cueva de los Aviones, a cave in Murcia, south-east Spain, found cockleshells perforated as if to be hung on a necklace. b. A scallop shell, or an imitation or representation of this, as the badge or emblem of a person, group, etc.; esp. this as the emblem of St James the Great, worn by pilgrims who have visited his shrine at Compostela in Spain or as a badge of pilgrimage more generally. Cf. cockle n.² 1c.With quots. 1488, 1621 cf. Order of the Cockle at cockle n.² Phrases 1a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > pilgrim's garb > items of attire > [noun] > token > shell shell1362 scallop?a1400 cockleshell1488 scallop-shell1530 Jacob's shell1757 cockle1962 1488 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) II. 393 A collar of cokkilschellis contenand xxiiii schellis of gold. 1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 76 They wore a collar wouen with Cockle shells, the word, Immensi tremor Oceani. 1773 F. Grose Antiq. Eng. & Wales I. Cumberland Pl. vii In the east window, under a coat armorial of three cockle-shells, are the following lines. 1861 Westm. Rev. Apr. 365 Voltaire is generally as weak in his theological arguments as in his famous explanation of the vestiges of shelly formations found in the Alps, by the hypothesis of pilgrims having let fall their cockleshells while crossing the Great St. Bernard. 1979 E. B. Gatbonton Heritage of Saints 183 His [sc. St James the Greater's] emblems are the sword, and he is shown riding a horse; or, when depicted as a pilgrim, a hat, a cockleshell, a staff and a wallet. 2012 K. Oakes Radical Reinvention viii. 203 I've wanted to go on pilgrimage since I read about the Camino de Santiago de Compostela route through Northern Spain. Pilgrims there wear a cockle shell for identification. †2. figurative. Apparently: shallowness or unsteadiness. Obsolete.An isolated use. ΚΠ 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iii. i. 160 We shall find The Ridicule rising full as strongly against the Professors of the higher as the lower kind. Cockleshell abounds with each. 3. A small shallow boat, canoe, etc., esp. when considered likely to sink or be overturned or broken apart in storms, rough waters, etc. Cf. Compounds, cockle n.² 2b.Quot. 1630 at sense 1a may imply earlier currency of this sense. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel > small boat > and fragile bauble1596 walnut-shell1614 cockleshell1786 wash-deck tub1878 1786 T. Baldwin Airopaidia xix. 105 Three Sail of Vessels appeared in the Channel: and four more were sailing down the River Wever, apparently just under the Balloon, diminishing to mere Cockle-shells, or like Boats which have no Rigging. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 290 Floating for thousands of miles in a cockle shell, down a turbulent stream. 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter I. 15 None but a madman would sail in yon cockle-shell with a gale coming. 1913 Sat. Evening Post 22 Feb. 10/3 The striker had come down from aloft and was standing face forward in the little cockleshell, rowing rapidly away. 2013 Wisconsin Mag. Hist. 96 21/1 Lake Winnebago is a notable inland sea, and the canoeist feels fairly lost, in his little cockle shell, bobbing about over its great waves. †II. Other types of shell. 4. A spiral gastropod shell. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > shell cockleshella1552 conch-shell1697 concha1755 conch1773 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 46 Writhen about with Degrees like Turninges of Cokilshilles, to cum to the Top. 1614 J. Brinsley tr. M. Cordier Dialogues iv. xxxvii. 462 (margin) The greece going vp round like a cocle shell. 1699 J. Drake & A. Baden tr. D. Le Clerc Hist. Physick ii. vii. 124 The interiour part of the ear, which winding in the form of a Cockle-shell, and being joynd to the highest part of the body like a little Bell, discerns all the impulsions of the air that enter into it. 1865 T. S. Lambert Systematic Human Physiol., Anat., & Hygiene ii. iii. 312 The Cochlea is, as its name signifies, like a cockle-shell in shape, and is constructed with a spiral cavity like that in the cockle, turned nearly three times round its axis, and rising with each turn. Compounds With other nouns, with the sense ‘that is (a) cockleshell’ (in sense 3), as cockleshell boat, cockleshell canoe, etc.In some quots. passing into adjectival use. ΚΠ 1704 D. Defoe Storm ii. 22 If the Japoneses, the East Indians, and such like Navigators, were to come with their thin Cockle-shell Barks and Calico Sails..there hardly comes a March or a September in twenty Years but would blow them to Pieces. 1796 J. C. Cross Parnassian Bagatelles 63 I've heard cannons roar, thunder rattle, Stemm'd the surge in a cockle-shell boat. 1865 E. H. Walshe Golden Hills xxiii. 163 Scanlan stood up—always a perilous action in these cockleshell canoes. 1895 A. J. Kenealy Boat Sailing in Fair Weather & Foul v. 60 Some of the heaviest gales known have been safely ridden out in cockleshell boats without any damage to crew, hull or gear. 1915 A. C. Laut Pioneers of Pacific Coast iii. 36 The Russian schooner would launch out a brigade of cockleshell kayaks on an unruffled stretch of sea. 2007 J. Mulvaney Axe had never Sounded Introd. p. xvii Lauding the four centuries since documented European cockleshell vessels coasted through Australian waters during 1606. Derivatives ˈcockle-shelled adj. having or adorned with, a scallop shell as a badge or emblem (see sense 1b); (also) covered or ornamented with cockleshells or scallop shells. ΚΠ 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 82 The ensignes of the Cockle-shelled Order of Saint Michael. 1893 C. G. Leland tr. H. Heine Wks. VII. v. 143 The young Henri appears as a pious pilgrim with cockle-shelled hat and staff, on which hangs a pear as if it were a decapitated head. 1924 F. M. Ford Some do Not ii. v. 432 She went away, up a cockle-shelled path. 1995 S. Carnahan 13 Stories iii. 32 We ordered sangria and peanuts and fino sherry, which we sipped while watching enormous somnambulistic cockroaches work their way down the cockle-shelled wall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1440
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