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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Schrunk, Shrunke, ppl. adj. [f. the p.p. of S(c)hrink v.] a. Contracted. b. Reduced in size by exposure to extremes of weather, etc. —a. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x 469.
My hands … sticking fast to the palmes of both handes, by reason of the shrunke sinewes —b. 1665 Irvine Mun. II 196.
Ther brig … being schrunk in the pillers and decayet in the pen therof … is lyklie … to become unpassible
