Obs. exc. dial. Also 9 jirt. [A phonetic variant or parallel form of JERK.]

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  1.  = JERK v.1

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1566.  Drant, Horace, A vij. They ierted vp their horse with whippes.

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1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 42. An other tower … that is not so wide as a belfree, and a Cobler cannot iert out his elbowes in. Ibid. (1600), Summer’s Last Will, in Hazl., Dodsley, VIII. 52. I jerted my whip, and said to my horses but hay.

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1616.  Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 134. You shall on the suddaine chocke him in the weeks of the mouth, and iert his head vp aloft.

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a. 1693.  Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xx. 165. Withdrawing himself … with a jerting turn towards the left hand.

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1826.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 117. That only gars you jirt out the words.

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  2.  dial. To throw a stone by jerking the arm against the hip: = HAUNCH v.3

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  In most north. Eng. dial. glossaries.

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