Definition for COCK'LE

COCK'LE, n.1 [Sax. coccel, cocel, or cocle; Ir. cagal; Sp. and Port. joyo; Fr. coquelicot.]

A plant or weed, that grows among corn, the corn-rose, a species of Agrostemma. It is also applied to the Lolium or darnel.

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