jerk
/ˈd͡ʒɝk/ verb C2- To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.
He/she/it jerks · Past jerked · Past participle jerked · -ing form jerking
Verb forms
- Base form
- jerk
- He/she/it
- jerks
- Past
- jerked
- Past participle
- jerked
- -ing form
- jerking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Sick and giddy as Mowgli was he could not help enjoying the wild rush, though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him, and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over nothing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth.
Oh, fat, brown, root-digging fool that I am,” said Baloo, uncoiling himself with a jerk, “it is true what Hathi the Wild Elephant says: `To each his own fear’; and they, the Bandar-log, fear Kaa the Rock Snake.
Josie Pye and Julia Bell did not “speak” for three months, because Josie Pye had told Bessie Wright that Julia Bell’s bow when she got up to recite made her think of a chicken jerking its head, and Bessie told Julia.
“One moment—one moment!” cried a querulous voice, and we looked up to find a queer little old man, jerking and twitching in the doorway.
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