cockle stove (koklstov)

A stove in which the cockle or fire-chamber is surrounded by air currents, which, after being heated sufficiently, are admitted into the apartments to be warmed. cockle-strewert (kok'l-strö"èr), n. A person whose duty it was to strew the earth with cockle-shells for the game of pall-mall. The earth is miered, and that over all there is cockleshells powdered and spread, to keep it fast, which, however, in dry weather turns to dust and deads the ball. The person who had the care of grounds was called the King's cockle- strewer . Quoted in M. S. Lowell's Edible British Mollusca (1884), [p. 45.