winkles
Small shore mollusks
Winkles are small edible sea snails, especially the common periwinkle, traditionally gathered from rocky shores and eaten in coastal Britain: a bag of winkles from the seaside stall.
To winkle something out is to extract it with difficulty, as one extracts the snail from its shell with a pin: She finally winkled the truth out of him.
Saltwater gastropod mollusk
- gastropodSingle-shelled soft creature
- molluskSoft-bodied invertebrate, often shelled
- shellHard outer covering
- spiralCurve winding around center
littoral · intertidal · tidepool · barnacles · limpet · cockle · whelk · mussel
Marine creatures as cuisine
- delicacyRefined sensitivity or rarity
- boiledHeated until bubbling
- steamedHeated by vapor
- vinegarAcidic cooking liquid
pin · picking · appetizer · savoury · garlic butter · seasoned · cooked · recipe
Collection of people meeting
- collectingGathering items over time
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- bucketOpen-top carrying vessel
- low tideSea at minimum level
rockpool · shoreline · handpicking · scavenging · beachcombing · seashore · traditional · subsistence
sea snail
Saltwater gastropod mollusk
- gastropodSingle-shelled soft creature
- molluskSoft-bodied invertebrate, often shelled
- shellHard outer covering
spiral · littoral · intertidal · tidepool · barnacles · limpet · cockle · whelk · mussel · rockpool
seafood
Marine creatures as cuisine
vinegar · pin · picking · appetizer · savoury · garlic butter · seasoned · cooked · recipe · traditional
gathering
Collection of people meeting
- collectingGathering items over time
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- bucketOpen-top carrying vessel
low tide · rockpool · shoreline · handpicking · scavenging · beachcombing · seashore · traditional · subsistence · seasonal
pry
Lever or snoop
pin · pick out · ease out · draw out · remove · extricate · probe · patience · fiddly · painstaking
- seafoodfish, shrimp, crab, lobster, salmon
- invertebratesinvertebrate, arthropod, arthropods, mollusk, crustacean
- shellfishclams, crab, oysters, lobster, shrimp
- tidepoolstidepools, tide pools, tide pool, rockpools, rock pools
- East EndEast End, Bow Bells, Tower Hamlets, Whitechapel, cockney
winkleslobster
Large marine shellfish
caviar · oysters · king crab · abalone · langoustine
winklesgiant clam
Largest bivalve species
lobster · king crab · conch · queen conch · abalone
- Rip Van WinkleMan who overslept generations
- Van WinkleLong-sleep folklore surname
- winkle outExtract with difficulty
twinkle, twinkling, twinkled, periwinkle, winkle, twinkler, winkling