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Yerked vs Yorked - What's the difference?

yerked | yorked |

As verbs the difference between yerked and yorked

is that yerked is (yerk) while yorked is (york).

yerked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (yerk)

    • 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.

    • yorked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (york)

    • york

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cricket) to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.