Puckering

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Puckered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Puckering}.] [From {Poke} a pocket, small bag.]
     To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
     ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
     pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in
     wrinkles." --Spectator.


     [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "puckering":
     abbreviation, astriction, astringency, bottleneck, cervix,
     circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction,
     compression, compressure, concentration, condensation,
     consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction,
     contracture, curtailment, decrease, diminuendo, hourglass,
     hourglass figure, isthmus, knitting, narrow place, narrowing, neck,
     pursing, reduction, shortening, solidification, stranglement,
     strangulation, striction, stricture, systole, wasp waist,
     wrinkling