Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "cockled" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of cockle. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Use "cockled" in a sentence
  • "I remember its lovely ageing details: the worn red brick, the cockled window glass, the weathered sandstone edgings."
  • "Even in the bedroom there were embroidered pin-cushions, landscapes in cross-stitch, and crosses in folded paper, so elaborately cockled as to show the senseless labor they had cost."
  • "The natives are a leathery, insouciant people; well-heeled women in suggestive topcloths parade around the avenues like so many cockled peacocks, and the men are as manicured as the Egyptians, a tribe of smellsmocks and pinchfarthings jockeying for attention."
Words like "cockled"