▪ I. cockly, a.1 Now dial.
(ˈkɒklɪ)
[f. cockle v.1 (or n.3) + -y.]
Full of cockles, rucks, or wrinkles, puckered.
| 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’. |
▪ 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.
| 1863 Atkinson Provinc. Danby. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Cocklety and Cockley, unsteady; also in Glossaries of Cumberland, Whitby, Holderness, and (cocklety) Huddersfield, Sheffield. Also in South of Scotl. |