1522. Skelton, Why nat to Court, 285. Nat worth a cockly fose.
1552. Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI., c. 6 § 40. Clothes cockely, pursy, bandy, squally or rowy, or evil burled.
1750. Miss Talbot, in Lett. Miss Carter, etc. (1809), I. 216. Do not make it rowy, or cockly.
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.