a. Obs. rare. [Apparently f. CLINKER v.1 + -Y. The actual history however is obscure, for our only example of the vb. is of much later date than the adj., and in fact occurs in Batman’s alteration of Trevisa’s ‘makeþ clynkery.’] Contracted or shrivelled with heat or cold.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IX. vi. (Tollem. MS.). Somer dryeþ mareis and mores and wasteþ moysture and makeþ hem rouȝe and harde and clynkery [so 1495; ed. 1582 clinkerie; Lat. desiccat, et exasperat, et indurat] and full of pittes and holes. Ibid., XI. iii. He [the North Wind] … makeþ bodies on erþe rouȝe and klynkery with his coldnesse and drynesse [terræ et corporum facit asperitates].
