(archaic, transitive) To lock up or lock in place; hold tight; fasten.
cockle
cockle
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
(UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
(UK) The dome of a heating furnace.
(UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
(by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
(directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
(in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
(mining, UK, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
The shell of such a mollusk.
verb
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
enlock
enlock
verb
(transitive, archaic) To enclose.
(transitive, archaic) To lock up.
fockle
hockle
hockle
noun
(Tyneside, vulgar) spit, spittle
A knob in cordage caused by twisting against the lay.
verb
(Tyneside) To spit.
(transitive) To mow, as stubble.
(transitive) to disable by cutting the tendons of the ham.
To damage cordage by twisting against the lay.
locked
locked
adj
(Ireland) Very drunk.
(mobile telephony, of a phone) Bound to a carrier.
Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lock
locker
locker
noun
(automotive) A locking differential.
(historical) A customs officer who guards a warehouse.
(rare) One who locks something.
A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers.
locket
locket
noun
(archaic) The upper metallic cap of a sword’s scabbard.
A pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item.
A small white marking on a cat's coat.
lockie
lokiec
relock
relock
verb
To lock again.
rockel
rockel
noun
(UK, dialect, archaic) A woman's cloak.
yockel
yockel
noun
(rare, UK, dialect) The yaffle or green woodpecker, Picus viridis.