shrinken

== Middle English == === Verb === shrinken 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;—