“cockly”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

cockly

释义

▪ I. cockly, a.¹ Now dial.|ˈkɒklɪ|
[f. cockle v.¹ (or n.³) + -y.]
Full of cockles, rucks, or wrinkles, puckered.
1522Skelton Why nat to Court 285 Nat worth a cockly fose.1552Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, c. 6 §40 Clothes..cockely, pursy, bandy, squally or rowy, or evil burled.1750Miss Talbot in Lett. Miss Carter, etc. (1809) I. 216 Do not make it rowy, or cockly.1885Yorksh. Newspaper, A ‘cockley’ place is either because of another quality of weft being inadvertently put in, or it is owing to the warp not being properly arranged on the ‘beam’.
▪ II. cockly, a.² dial.
Also cocklety.
[f. cockle v.²; cf. the nearly synonymous cockery, and coggly.]
Unsteady on its base, moving from side to side like an unsteady stone or boat.
1863Atkinson Provinc. Danby.1869Lonsdale Gloss., Cocklety and Cockley, unsteady; also in Glossaries of Cumberland, Whitby, Holderness, and (cocklety) Huddersfield, Sheffield. Also in South of Scotl.

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