Now dial. [f. COCKLE v.1 (or sb.3) + -Y.] Full of cockles, rucks, or wrinkles, puckered.

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1522.  Skelton, Why nat to Court, 285. Nat worth a cockly fose.

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1552.  Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI., c. 6 § 40. Clothes … cockely, pursy, bandy, squally or rowy, or evil burled.

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1750.  Miss Talbot, in Lett. Miss Carter, etc. (1809), I. 216. Do not make it rowy, or cockly.

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1885.  Yorksh. 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.’

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