Crossword clues for yerk
yerk
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yerk \Yerk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yerked; p. pr. & vb. n. Yerking.] [See Yerk.]
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To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
Their wounded steeds . . . Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters.
--Shak. To strike or lash with a whip. [Obs. or Scot.]
Yerk \Yerk\, v. i.
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To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.
They flirt, they yerk, they backward . . . fling.
--Drayton. To move a quick, jerking motion.
Yerk \Yerk\, n. A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.
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 lash with a whip.
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.