Burke

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To murder by suffocation.

   “As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke him, Burke him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘Burke Hare too!’”

2. fiil To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.

   “Perhaps he is Burked, and his body sold for nine pounds.”

3. fiil To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.

   “The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked.”

4. isim Alternative form of berk.
5. özel isim A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.
6. özel isim A ghost town in Shoshone County, Idaho.
7. özel isim A town and village therein, in Franklin County, New York.
8. özel isim A small city, the county seat of Gregory County, South Dakota.
9. özel isim A minor city in Angelina County, Texas.
10. özel isim A town in Caledonia County, Vermont, named after Edmund Burke.
11. özel isim A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia.
12. özel isim An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington.
13. özel isim A town and unincorporated community therein, in Dane County, Wisconsin, named after Edmund Burke.
14. özel isim A local government area in north-west Queensland, Australia, named after Robert O'Hara Burke; in full, the Shire of Burke.