资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cockled \Coc"kled\, a.
Inclosed in a shell.
The tender horns of cockled snails. --Shak.
Cockled \Coc"kled\, a.
Wrinkled; puckered.
Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain. --Gay.
Cockle \Coc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cockled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Cockling}.] [Of uncertian origin.]
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds
of cloth after a wetting.
{Cockling sea}, waves dashing against each other with a short
and quick motion. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.