An archaic or dialectal term, possibly relating to the toppling or upset condition of something.
Possibly from 'colly' (to blacken or upset) combined with 'west', though the exact etymology is uncertain and the word appears rarely in historical texts.
This word is so obscure that even major dictionaries are uncertain about its precise meaning—it's like finding a fossil in a library, telling us about lost dialects of English!
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