dial. [f. COCKLE v.1 + -ING1.] The action of becoming, or condition of being, puckered or wrinkled.
1552. Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI., c. 6 § 1. Cockeling, bandoning, and divers other Great and notable Faults.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 111. Occasioned by cockling and rising of the Lead into a ridge.
1803. Month. Mag., XV. 8. He mentions the word recoquillement, the old word cockling or cockling up … is an exact translation.
a. 1853. Lindley, in Gardener’s Chron. Its [glass’s] thickness is so variable from the effects of cockling.
† Cockling vbl. sb.2 Obs. Cockering, pampering: see COCKLE v.3
