"shrinken" meaning in Middle English

See shrinken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|var=1}} shrinken
  1. alternative form of schrynken Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: schrynken
    Sense id: en-shrinken-enm-verb-vP09FNjW Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "Chaucer's Works (ed. Skeat) Vol. V by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Walter William Skeat, Notes on the Seconde Nonnes Tale\nFor it nis bote a bladre i-blowe ful of a wreche wynde;\nBe it with a litel prikke i-priked, a-wey it shrinketh al;"
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