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Yerb vs Yerk - What's the difference?

yerb | yerk |

As nouns the difference between yerb and yerk

is that yerb is while yerk is (archaic) a sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.

As a verb yerk is

(archaic) to stab.

yerb

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="At the same time we got a yerb " (such was his pronunciation) "on the hills, which some call lion-heart, and others snake-head." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Charles Egbert Craddock, title=The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When he ventured to sneeze, Mrs. Roxby compounded and administered a "yerb tea," a sovereign remedy against colds, which he tasted on compulsion and in great doubt, and swallowed with alacrity and confidence, finding its basis the easily recognizable "toddy." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, title=Brother Copas, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The ancients, by which I mean the Greeks, set amazin' store by the yerb . }}

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    yerk

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) to stab.
  • *circa 1603, :
    • I lack iniquity / Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times / I had thought to have yerk’d him here, under the ribs.
  • To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
  • * Drayton
    • They flirt, they yerk , they backward fling.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Their wounded steeds / Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters.
  • (obsolete, Scotland) To strike or lash with a whip.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.