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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 




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