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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Jerk  \Jerk\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Jerked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Jerking}.]  [Akin  to  yerk,  and  perh.  also  to  yard  a  measure.] 
  1.  To  beat  to  strike.  [Obs.]  --Florio. 
 
  2.  To  give  a  quick  and  suddenly  arrested  thrust,  push  pull 
  or  twist,  to  to  yerk;  as  to  jerk  one  with  the  elbow;  to 
  jerk  a  coat  off 
 
  3.  To  throw  with  a  quick  and  suddenly  arrested  motion  of  the 
  hand;  as  to  jerk  a  stone. 




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