Obs. [? freq. or dim. of CLING; cf. hang, hanker.] To cause to shrink or shrivel up.
1582. Batman, On Barthol., XI. iii. 159. Hee [the Nth wind] … maketh the bodies on earth rough, and clinkereth with his coldnesse and drynesse, and maketh sinewes to be constrained. [But the word might be an error for CLINKERY.]
