English Explanatory Dictionary

wrine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A deep wrinkle.

Word forms

wrine wrines wry

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.

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