"cockle-bread" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1884, Hardwicke's Science-gossip - Volume 20, page 150:",
          "text": "When St. Bernard founded his abbey, near Clairvaux, he and his thirteen companions lived on barley, or cockle-bread, with boiled beech leaves as vegetables, while they were employed grubbing up the forest, and in building huts for their habitation.",
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        "Bread made from wild grain."
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        "(obsolete) Bread made from wild grain."
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          "ref": "1595, George Peele, The Old Wife's Tale:",
          "text": "Fair maiden, white and red, Comb me smooth and stroke my head, And though shalt have some cockle-bread.",
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          "ref": "1878, Notes and Queries, page 152:",
          "text": "The very homely pastime of cockle-bread may, or may not, have been named from this foreign cake, but need not here be further alluded to.",
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          "ref": "1994, Paul Spinrad, The RE/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids:",
          "text": "A European custom had young women prepare \"cockle-bread,\" a food intended to excite men's passion, by sitting on dough and wiggling around to knead it, sometimes reciting a rhyme in the process (\"Up with my heels and down with my head/And this is the way to mould cockle-bread\" is an example).",
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          "text": "They recall the much later English 'cockle bread', one of many methods used by girls to divine the names of their future husbands.",
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        "A form of bread used as a love charm, variously described as being kneaded with the knees or buttocks, or simply shaped to look like buttocks."
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