Sc. and dial. [see COGGLE sb.1, and COCKLE v.2] intr. and trans. To shake from side to side; to be unsteady; to wabble. Hence Coggling ppl. a. = COGGLY.

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1756.  Mrs. Calderwood, Jrnl., v. (1884), 135. She cogled terribly, and I thought every minute she would fall.

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1808.  Jamieson, Coggle, to cause any thing to move from side to side, so as to seem ready to be overset.

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1879.  Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Coggle, to be shaky, as of a rickety piece of furniture. ‘This table coggles.’

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1883.  J. Parker, Tyne Chylde, 160. Tempted … to pass the deep stream on coggling stones.

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1884.  Cheshire Gloss., Coggle, to be unsteady.

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