| 单词 | cockle gathering |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockle gathering b. With verbal nouns, agent nouns, and participles, forming compounds in which cockle expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in cockle-eating, cockle gathering, etc.See also cockle picker n., cockle-picking n., cockle-strewer n., cockle-warming adj. at Compounds 3. ΚΠ ?1780 Adventures Air Balloon (ed. 5) 56 A dazzling cave of ore and shell, that reduces don Saltero's genius to the applause of a cockle-gatherer. 1860 Zoologist 18 6793 They [sc. common gulls] are..perfectly indifferent to the presence of certain cockle-hunting females. 1907 Manch. Guardian 27 Mar. 5/7 The most gluttonous of the cockle-eating gulls that feed in Morecambe Bay come from Ailsa Craig. 2016 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 26 Feb. (Features section) 31 Cockle gathering, one of the oldest industries in Wales, is dying. < as lemmas |
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