cockler

British

/ ˈkɒklə /

noun

a person employed to gather cockles from the seashore

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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."

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2016

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