wrinkle1 n OED ~ sb2 s w dial (1589-); EDD sb2 D Co for sense 1.
1 A variety of periwinkle, family Littorinidae; SNAGLE, SNAIL.
1946 TOCQUE 72 The sea-shore exhibits to our view the sea urchin ... and the wrinkle. 1924 ENGLAND 266 Then, too, you can scent tubs of bait, including 'mushels,' 'wrinkles' (periwinkles), and 'cock an' 'ens,' another kind of shellfish. 1969 HORWOOD 187 In a cove just outside Clay Hole we found a bed of small white clams. Beyond low-water mark huge sea snails, periwinkles, or 'wrinkles' as some Newfoundlanders call them, crawled over the rocks. Some of them were monsters of their kind, fully three inches in diameter. M 71-118 We used to say, 'Wrinkle, Wrinkle, blow out your horns. If you don't I'll kill your mother and father.' 1976 GUY 107 If fish are scarce, you can pick up some wrinkles (snails) off the rocks or the sunken wharves and crack them.
2 Comb wrinkle net: device to trap periwinkles.
1979 TIZZARD 322 My father used to get [wrinkles] out of his herring net when it dragged on the bottom at times. Then he made a 'wrinkle' net. This was made from an iron hoop from a beef or pork barrel and into this hoop he would sew a piece of burlap bag. Some kind of bait, herring usually, was fastened to this burlap and then the whole thing was lowered to the bottom about a hundred yards or so offshore. Each day it was pulled I remember there would be several 'wrinkles' in it.
