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verb
Yark  v. t. & v. i.  To yerk. (Prov. Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Yark" Quotes from Famous Books



... thoomb-nail. Deil a word said Leddy Carline tae me for a gey while, as she vrought an' vrought tae gar the saumon quit his neuk. But she cam nae speed wi' him; an' at last she says, says she, 'Geordie, I can make nothing of him: what in the world is to be done?' 'Gie him a shairp upward yark, my leddy,' says I; 'there canna be muckle strength o' resistance left in him by this time!' Weel, she did as I tellt her—I will say this for Leddy Carline, that she's aye biddable. But, rugg her hardest, the fush stuck i' the neuk as gin he waur a bit o' the ...
— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes



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