Definition of "cockernony"

cockernony

noun
plural cockernonies
1. (Scotland, obsolete) The bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman.
  Quotations
  Her mother [...] sat by the fire in the full glory of a grogram gown, lammer beads, and a clean cockernony, whiffing a snug pipe of tobacco, and superintending the affairs of the kitchen.
  1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], page 305
  And so I will; for here are rosy partners.Ribbon’d and cockernonied*, by my faith! Like very queens.*Coil of hair on the top of the head.
  1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1.