Dictionary entry

Pucker

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 puckered up in wrinkles.” Spectator.