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yerk
Word definitions for yerk in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk. vb. 1 (context archaic English) to stab. 2 To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk. 3 (context obsolete Scotland English) To strike or ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yerk \Yerk\, v. i. To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk. They flirt, they yerk, they backward . . . fling. --Drayton. To move a quick, jerking motion.
Usage examples of yerk.
Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of an European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors' faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs.
When he clapped his hands twice in rapid succession, a large contingent of musicians began yerking out the national anthem and everyone in the room dropped to their knees—everyone except Brim and Saltash.
Long jaws clicked on emp tiness where a fraction of a second before the white face had been, and the harpy screamed hideously, yerking aside into Brian, half tumbling the knight from Blanchard's back before it's long wings caught on the ah: and beat upward once more to safety.