Middle English

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Verb

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shrinken

  1. Alternative form of schrynken
    • Chaucer's Works (ed. Skeat) Vol. V by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Walter William Skeat, Notes on the Seconde Nonnes Tale
      For it nis bote a bladre i-blowe ful of a wreche wynde;
      Be it with a litel prikke i-priked, a-wey it shrinketh al;—