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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dirk .
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Examples
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Na, I canna tell what has happened, but at the least Lauchlan maun hae dirked the earl.
The Little Minister 1898
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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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