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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cokle, n. [e.m.E. cocle, etc., ME. cokel, cockel, OE. coccel, -ul.] The corn-weed cockle. —1561 Conf. in Knox II. 119.
We … confesse that darnell, cokle, and chaff, may be sawin … in the myddis of the wheat
