单词 | cockled |
释义 | cockledadj.1 1. Chiefly poetic and literary. Of a snail: enclosed in a shell. Hence later occasionally used as a conventional epithet for a snail, chiefly in echoes of or allusions to Shakespeare’s use in quot. 1598. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having a shell shelly1593 cockled1598 testaceous1646 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 314 Loues feeling is more soft and sensible, Then are the tender hornes of Cockled Snayles. View more context for this quotation 1822 London Lit. Gaz. 3 Aug. 487/3 'Tis thus my soul's revealings have been checked, And forced to shrink within themselves again, And I might envy even that ‘cockled’ Snail. 1859 J. C. Byrne Realities Paris Life III. iii. 283 Our no longer positive friend, drawing in his horns like the ‘cockled snail’. 1963 J. C. Moore Year of Pigeons iii. 34 Upon the new-green hedges..the first of those cockled snails with candy-striped shells which we call Hodmandods were crawling. 2011 H. Luhning Quiver xi. 94 The trail spirals like a cockled snail and the rocks glow, illuminated by a black light. 2. Esp. of a hat: adorned with a scallop shell as a badge of pilgrimage (see cockleshell n. 1b). Cf. cockle hat n. at cockle n.2 Compounds 3, cockle-shelled adj. at cockleshell n. Derivatives. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [adjective] > hat > other round1565 four-corner1640 basoned1728 cockled1745 featherlessa1845 Christy1867 pullover1877 pugreed1881 sailor-shape1897 off-the-face1908 weepered1908 1745 C. Cibber Papal Tyranny i. 8 The regal Sceptre, and the purple Robe Against the cockled Pilgrim's Rug and Staff! 1797 W. Mason Argentine & Curran i. ii, in Poems III. 216 A pilgrim I, with cockled hat. 1846 H. Curling John of Eng. III. xiii. 173 Taking palmer's staff and cockled hat, he turned his steps from scenes in which he found no interest. 1979 E. D. Goldstein Let's Go: Budget Guide Europe 596 Modern pilgrims no longer wear the uniform of cape and cockled hat. ΚΠ 1891 N.E.D. Cockled,..2. Made ill by eating cockles. colloq. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cockledadj.2 With reference to material such as cloth, glass, or (now esp.) paper: having or characterized by bulges, wrinkles, creases, or other blemishes; puckered. Also with up. Cf. cockle v.2, cockly adj.1 ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] unevenc1275 rudea1393 craggeda1400 knaggedc1430 raggedc1450 raggy1483 cocklya1529 rugged1528 knaggy1552 unlevel?a1560 craggy1568 scraggy1574 balkish1577 cockling1582 cockled1600 unequal1613 salebrous1633 scragged1641 inequal1661 unevenly1683 hummocky1767 snaggly1794 snaggy1806 hobblya1825 shreddy1835 scraggly1869 bobbly1909 pebbly1923 snaggled1938 1600 Extract translated out of French Copie (single sheet) All sorts of woollen cloth which, shall be brought by the said Englishmen or Strangers, white, or died, in wooll, & not otherwise, before entering into this Realme, shal be wet & shrunke,..not made of diuers sorts of woolles, barred, striped, cockled, & filled with flocks. 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 4 And Show'rs soon drench the Camlet's cockled Grain. 1857 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 608/2 The smooth crisp curves about the breasts of our coats..become cockled, flatted, and destroyed by the least moisture. 1874 ‘H. O'Hara’ Conquered at Last I. v. 61 There was one peculiarity about my aunt's worsted, it had always the cockled up appearance of having been used before. 1936 Paper-maker & Brit. Paper Trade Jrnl. Sept. 184/1 If the cylinders are too hot, a steam layer forms in between the paper and the cylinder face, preventing contact, so that the paper cannot be dried evenly, so that damp streaks and cockled paper are produced. 2017 Rijksmuseum Bull. 65 99/1 The rather cockled wallpaper has a lozenge pattern with wreaths of leaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11598adj.21600 |
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