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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dirk.

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Examples

  • And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh and buttock, than which

    Chapter 17 2010

  • And they grippit me, and cried treason; and I thought of the Ruthvens that were dirked in their ain house, for, it may be, as small a forfeit.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh, and buttock, than which I could reach no higher up the mighty frame of him.

    Chapter 17 1915

  • This puzzled me at the time, but we learned later that the man -- he turned out to be the stoker Billie Blue had dirked in the first fight -- had been killed by an unexpected ally who joined us later.

    The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • They were moored, stem and stern, in a grog-shop, making a great noise, with a crowd of Indians and hungry half-breeds about them, and with a fair prospect of being stripped and dirked, or left to pass the night in the calabozo.

    Chapter XXVII. The Sunday Wash-Up-On Shore-A Set-To-A Grandee-“Sail Ho!”-A Fandango 1909

  • He was seized in her presence, and dirked by fifty daggers outside of her room.

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • Parkhurst tells Bullinger, among other novelties, that Riccio was a necromancer, who happened to be dirked; by whom he does not say.

    John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

  • He had seen the lower deck of the _Tremendous_ awash with blood; he had dirked men, and shot them.

    The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

  • Na, I canna tell what has happened, but at the least Lauchlan maun hae dirked the earl.

    The Little Minister 1898

  • And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh and buttock, than which I could reach no higher up the mighty frame of him.

    The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

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