dirking

Dave in New York is considering it and he asks: "Is there really any validity to the research that suggests dirking red wine helps reduce risks for heart disease?"

CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2003 2003

And neither needed they; they had their broadswords, and I have this bit supple (showing a formidable cudgel) -- for dirking ower the board, I leave that to John Highlandman.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various

The personal pleasure of dirking the wretch could not be resisted, and the danger of causing the Queen's miscarriage and death may have entered into the plans of Darnley.

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

Alan was dirking him with his left hand, but the fellow clung like a leech.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

The personal pleasure of dirking the wretch could not be resisted, and the danger of causing the Queen's miscarriage and death may have entered into the plans of Darnley.

John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

Alan was dirking him with his left hand, but the fellow clung like

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The young Highlander was said to be dirking pigs, while the father was keeping guard.

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

One can hardly be ingenuous enough to consider all this dirking, battering, and fisticuffing as the legitimate and healthy outcome of a difference as to the knotty point whether all men might or might not be saved by repentance and faith in Christ.

Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) John Lothrop Motley 1845

One can hardly be ingenuous enough to consider all this dirking, battering, and fisticuffing as the legitimate and healthy outcome of a difference as to the knotty point whether all men might or might not be saved by repentance and faith in Christ.

Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1614-23) John Lothrop Motley 1845

One can hardly be ingenuous enough to consider all this dirking, battering, and fisticuffing as the legitimate and healthy outcome of a difference as to the knotty point whether all men might or might not be saved by repentance and faith in Christ.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845