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- verb Present participle of
yerk .
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Examples
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Polo north will beseem Sibernian and Plein Pelouta will behowl ne yerking at lawncastrum ne ghimbelling on guelflinks.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Another thing that's been yerking my honses, is this submitting to an agent and then, having someone actually write me back.
drag me through the slime and the mud.. impetuousme 2005
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_Musrole_, or sharp _Cavezan_, and _Martingale_; which is the best guide to a Horse for setting his Head in due place, forming the Rein, and appearing Gracefull and Comely; it corrects the yerking out his Head, or
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It was done -- and presently the comfortable feeling of bowling along before the breeze, succeeded the sharp yerking digging motion of the little vessel, tearing and pitching through a head sea, close upon a wind.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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Still yerking, never leaves until himself he fling
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653
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