Cockling [verb]
Definition of Cockling:
draw together; wrinkle
Synonyms of Cockling:
● Crinkle
● Tighten
● Squeeze
● Ruffle
● Purse
● Gather
● Compress
● Condense
● Contract
● Crease
● Fold
● Cockle
● Knit
● Crumple
● Furrow
● Screw up
● Ruckle
● Ruck up
Opposite/Antonyms of Cockling:
● Smooth
● Open
● Extend
● Spread
● Give
● Expand
● Loose
● Free
● Lengthen
● Enlarge
● Stretch
● Increase
● Loosen
Sentence/Example of Cockling:
Only a comparatively light pressure should be given, or the lining up of the headbands or back will become cockled and detached.
The paper is kept perfectly stretched as it dries, because it shrinks enormously, and would otherwise become cockled and uneven.
Gay writes: "Showers soon drench the camblet's cockled grain."
She had a very sweet, kind face, all cockled with wrinkles like a sheet of crumpled tissue paper, but very beautiful in its age.