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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

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imp. & p. p.

Yerked

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Yerking

[See

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.

Shakespeare

To strike or lash with a whip.

[Obs. or Scot.]

Verb.

To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.

They flirt, they

yerk

, they backward . . . fling.

Drayton.

To move a quick, jerking motion.

Noun.

A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.

Verb.

To throw or thrust with a sudden smart spring; as, horses yerk their heels.

Noun.

A sudden or quick thrust or motion.