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Puckering

To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.

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A fold or pinched bunch of fabric caused by the shrinkage of one layer among many.

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Word	Definition
ruck upverb	(chiefly US, colloquial, idiomatic, somewhat vulgar) To be brave, to show some courage, to keep moving forward in a difficult situation.
crumpleverb	(transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
rumplenoun	(transitive) To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
tucknoun	(transitive) To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
rucknoun	A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
knitverb	(ambitransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.
gatherverb	To collect normally separate things.
drawverb	Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
cocklenoun	Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
twistingnoun	Having many twists
pincushioningnoun	Synonym of pincushion distortion.
plicaturenoun	(archaic outside sciences) A doubling; a fold; a plication.
clinchingnoun	A making certain or finalizing.
pleatingnoun	An action or arrangement in which something is pleated.
bunchingnoun	(countable) An arrangement of items in a bunch.
plicationnoun	(now chiefly biology, geology) An act of folding.
foldnoun	An act of folding.
pinholdnoun	(wrestling, professional wrestling) A hold in which the opponent is pinned to the mat.
nettling	The process of stinging somebody with nettles.
squeezenoun	An instance of squeezing.

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