wrine

English

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Etymology

Alteration (due to wrinkle) of earlier rine (“ditch, trench”), from Middle English rune, rone, from Old English ryne (“a watercourse, flow”), from rinnan (“to run”). More at run, runnel.

Noun

wrine (plural wrines)

  1. (obsolete) A deep wrinkle.

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