scorkle
Middle English edit
Verb edit
scorkle
- to scorch, to burn
- Chaucer, Boece
- And ek this nero gouernyd by ceptre alle the poeples þat ben vndyr the colde sterres that hyhten vii tyryones / this to seyn he gouernede alle the poeples þat ben vndyr the party of the north / and ek nero gouernede alle þe poeples þat the vyolent wynd nothus scorklith
- Chaucer, Boece