'Jerked' definitions:
Definition of 'Jerked'
From: GCIDE
- Jerk \Jerk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jerked (j[~e]rkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Jerking.] [Akin to yerk, and perh. also to yard a measure.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To beat; to strike. [Obs.] --Florio. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone. [1913 Webster]