† Cuckold sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary

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Obs. Variant of COCKLE.

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  1.  = COCKLE1 3, the burdock.

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1698.  Sir R. Southwell, in Phil. Trans., XX. 89. What they call Cuckold-Burs, which stick on the Cloths.

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  2.  = COCKLE2, the shell-fish.

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1782.  P. H. Bruce, Mem., XII. 424. Their shell-fish are … wilkes, cuckolds, craw-fish, lobsters, crabs.

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