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Definition of Cockling
1. cockle [v] - See also: cockle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockling
Literary usage of Cockling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"A cockling sea is one jerked up into short waves by contrary currents. cackle,
to chuck ; coque, an eggshell, shell, cockle, with the dim. coquille, ..."
2. The American Amateur Photographer (1891)
"cockling—Is one of the many perplexities that meet the amateur, both with his
silver prints and his cardboard mounts. Several remedies have been recommended ..."
3. Silk Manufacturing and Its Problems by James Chittick (1913)
"cockling is a most serious trouble at times, the genuine cockling lying largely
... cockling effects may be produced in a variety of ways, such as by uneven ..."
4. Practical Guide to Photographic & Photomechanical Printing by William Kinninmond Burton (1887)
"If this process is very quickly performed, so that tho print has barely time to
get wet through, tho cockling of the mounts will bo but small. ..."
5. Wilson's Photographics: A Series of Lessons, Accompanied by Notes, on All by Edward Livingston Wilson (1881)
"One great difficulty in mounting, which should not be overlooked, is the cockling
or distorting of the card-board, by the unequal drying out of the moisture ..."
6. The Photographic Times (1908)
"MULTIPLE MOUNTING WITHOUT cockling.— I have read several articles from time ...
This certainly stopped the cockling, but it took all the beauty out of the ..."
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