dial. Also cocklety. [f. COCKLE v.2; cf. the nearly synonymous cockery, and coggly.] Unsteady on its base, moving from side to side like an unsteady stone or boat.
1863. Atkinson, Provinc. Danby.
1869. Lonsdale Gloss., Cocklety and Cockley, unsteady; also in Glossaries of Cumberland, Whitby, Holderness, and (cocklety) Huddersfield, Sheffield. Also in South of Scotl.
