Definition of "yerked" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of yerk. (verb)

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• "He stammered, he tried to laugh, he put his hand on Margaret's head, he yerked up his trousers, he looked into his basket."
• "With a wild yelling neigh, the tortured brute yerked out his heels viciously; and, as ill luck would have it, both took effect on the person of his fallen master, one striking him a terrible blow on the chest, the other shattering his collar bone and shoulder."
• "Indeed, a condemned thief with the rope about his neck, and the white cowl tied over his eyes, to say nothing of his hands yerked together behind his back, and on the nick of being thrown over, could not have been more thankful for a reprieve than I was, at the same blessed moment."