yerk

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To stab (someone or something).

   “To doe no contriu'd mur[t]her; I lacke iniquity / Sometimes to do me ſeruice: nine or ten times, / I had thought to haue ierk'd him here, / Vnder the ribbes.”

2. fiil 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.”

3. fiil To strike or lash with a whip or stick.
4. fiil To rouse or excite.
5. fiil To bind or tie with a jerk.
6. isim A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.

   “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.”