Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unsteady; unstable.
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Examples
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I thought it must be a hard life for the man, wading day after day in the ice-cold water, and groping among the coggly, sliddery stones for the shellfish, and cracking open perhaps a thousand before he could find one pearl.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892
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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.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892
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A long, coggly, cracked slate-stone, whose unsteady clatter would make the soberest steed jump over the moon.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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