English Dictionary

yerk

/jɜː(ɹ)k/

verb

(transitive, archaic) To stab (someone or something). / To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.

He yerked the door open.

意味（1）

(transitive, archaic) To stab (someone or something).

To doe no contriu'd mur[t]her; I lacke iniquity / Sometimes to do me ſeruice: nine or ten times, / I had thought to haue ierk'd him here, / Vnder the ribbes.

意味（2）

To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.

Their wounded steeds […] / Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters.

意味（3）

(obsolete, Scotland) To strike or lash with a whip or stick.

意味（4）

(obsolete, Scotland) To rouse or excite.

意味（5）

To bind or tie with a jerk.