coggle
verb
(intr) to wobble or rock; be unsteady
coggly
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a word derived from
coggle.
Example Sentences
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It was about a hundred paces long, composed of round, coggly stones, with just one patch of smooth sand at the lower end.
From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Henry Van Dyke
A long, coggly, cracked slate-stone, whose unsteady clatter would make the soberest steed jump over the moon.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
When the day came, I thought all things in this world were loosened from their hold, and that the sure and steadfast earth itself was grown coggly beneath my feet, as I mounted the pulpit.
From The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt
She had a worm-eaten stock, into which the barrel seldom was able to get itself fairly inserted; and even with the aid of circumvoluting twine, 'twas always coggly.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
