shrinken
Middle English
Verb
shrinken
- to shrink
- 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;—
- For it nis bote a bladre i-blowe ful of a wreche wynde;
- Chaucer's Works (ed. Skeat) Vol. V by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Walter William Skeat, Notes on the Seconde Nonnes Tale
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