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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yerk.

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Examples

  • Imagine twenty thousand of them breaking into the midst of a European army, confounding the confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors 'faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs.

    Gulliver's Travels 1896

  • A fig for her scruples! the hey-day blood yerks yet,

    Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872

  • No one supposed that a New York jury would have condemned him; and yet it "yerks one," as Lord Burleigh has it, to see Murder walk away scot-free!

    Echoes of the Week 1864

  • European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors 'faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.

    Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

  • European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors 'faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.

    Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

  • European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors 'faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.

    Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

  • Tell us more about yourself: very simple yet not trendy hahaha ... alo pren .. join network aku lah weh aku tengah kumpul orang nih .. tima kasih haaa ajak ler kengkawan lain yerks

    Ning Blog 2008

  • European army, confounding the ranks, overturning the carriages, battering the warriors’ faces into mummy by terrible yerks from their hinder hoofs; for they would well deserve the character given to Augustus, Recalcitrat undique tutus.

    Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726

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