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puckering


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pucker  \Puck"er\,  v.  t.  &  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Puckered};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Puckering}.]  [From  {Poke}  a  pocket,  small  bag.] 
  To  gather  into  small  folds  or  wrinkles;  to  contract  into 
  ridges  and  furrows;  to  corrugate;  --  often  with  up  as  to 
  pucker  up  the  mouth.  ``His  skin  [was]  puckered  up  in 
  wrinkles.''  --Spectator. 




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