† scorklev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To scorch.
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c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1886) ii. met. vi. (Cambr.) 43 And ek nero gouernede alle þe poeples þat the vyolent wynd nothus scorklith [Addit. MS. scorchiþ; orig. has torret], and bakyth the brennyng sandes by hys drye hete.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 450/1 Scorklyd, ustillatus. Scorkelyn, ustulo. Scorklynge [v.r. Scorkelyng], ustillacio.
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