Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To wrinkle; crease.

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Examples

  • I cud describe it till ye, mem, but it wad only gar ye runkle yer bonny broo, an 'luik as I wadna hae ye luik, mem, 'cause ye wadna luik freely sae bonny as ye div noo whan ye luik jist yersel'.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • I hae mysel seen by the set mou 'at the teeth war clinched i' the inside o ''t, whan a' the time on the broo o '' im sat never a runkle.

    Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

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