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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of quirt.

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Examples

  • It bawled indignantly, but he quirted it again and again until it began to gallop.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • She had seen the excitement in his eyes when he quirted someone, or prepared for a burning.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • He could have shot him or stabbed him or quirted him to death.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • He could have shot him or stabbed him or quirted him to death.

    Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993

  • She had seen the excitement in his eyes when he quirted someone, or prepared for a burning.

    Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993

  • Thus speaking, the spy quirted the opening, leaving Nellie alone.

    The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma Ralph Bonehill

  • Bud quirted the tired Pinte into a gallop, and they approached the herd, about which the dark, slim figures of the dogs were running.

    The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

  • It was decided by the cowmen that, as a warning and example to other sheep owners, Bud Larkin should be tied to a tree and quirted, the maximum of the punishment being set at thirty blows and the sentence to be carried out at dawn.

    The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

  • If you speak to me again as you have this afternoon I will call those men in and have you quirted up against a tree.

    The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

  • The Texan leaned far out and, grasping the bridle, drew him in to the bank and quirted him to the top.

    The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

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