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cockler
/ ˈkɒklə /
noun
- a person employed to gather cockles from the seashore
Example Sentences
There has been a search of the entire area and everyone involved has made strenuous efforts to find this missing cockler.
A night-time rescue operation was launched after one cockler, Guo Bing Long, called 999 and said: "Sinking water, many many, sinking water... Sinking water, sinking water."
Sinking Water, which takes its name from a cockler's emergency call on 5 February 2004, would "humanise" what happened, writer Daniel York said.
The body of a cockler has been found off the Wirral coast in Merseyside, the coastguard has confirmed.
A rescue operation began after one cockler, Guo Bing Long, called 999 and told police: "Sinking water, many many, sinking water... Sinking water, sinking water."
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