Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold 2 to cower 3 (context of the limbs English) to contract, to pull in
Usage examples of "hurkle".
The hurkle are highly regarded by the gwik as pets, in spite of the fact that a hurkle is so affectionate that it can have no loyalty.
At the end of that time, the hurkle, no longer a kitten, was possessed of a fine, healthy litter of just under two hundred young.
Perhaps it was the DDT, and perhaps it was the new variety of radiation that the hurkle received from the terrestrial sky, but they were all parthenogenetic females, even as you and I.
Into the above-mentioned laboratory, which had been left open through the circumstances described, wandered a hurkle kitten.
When the hurkle kitten fell into the flame, it braced itself for a fall at least as far as the floor of the cabinet.
Yonder ye see in the howe, and Yonderdale begins where the twae hills hurkle thegither.