Also 7 wrinckle. Now s.w. dial. and local U.S. [Alteration of WINKLE sb., after prec.] The periwinkle or whelk. Also transf.
1589. Rider, Bibl. Scholast., 1724. A walke, or wrinkle, turbo.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 30 b. Wrinckles,… and Muscles, are gathered by hand upon the rockes.
1616. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. i. 454. Oysters and small Wrinckles.
1750. Heath, Acc. Isl. Scilly, 46. Of Shell-fish are denominated … Shrimps, Limpets, Wrinkles.
1795. Wolcot (P. Pindar), Royal Tour, Proem. 24. She swears I’m … Rather a wrinkle, limpet, paltry muscle.
a. 1870. J. Couch, Polperro (1871), 153. A journey to the sea-coast … to pick ‘wrinkles.’
1880–2. in Cornwall glossaries.
