Obs. Variant of COCKLE.
1. = COCKLE1 3, the burdock.
1698. Sir R. Southwell, in Phil. Trans., XX. 89. What they call Cuckold-Burs, which stick on the Cloths.
2. = COCKLE2, the shell-fish.
1782. P. H. Bruce, Mem., XII. 424. Their shell-fish are … wilkes, cuckolds, craw-fish, lobsters, crabs.
