scorkle

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Middle English

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Verb

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scorkle

  1. 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