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▪ I. jert, n. Obs. or dial.
Also 8– jirt.
= jerk n.1
1568Jacob & Esau i. i, Come on, ye must haue three iertes for the nonce. 1607Markham Caval. ii. (1617) 40 Giue him a Ierte or two vpon the nether part of his buttocks. 1611Cotgr., Attainte, a gentle nip, quip, or iert. 1785Burns 2nd Ep. to Lapraik ix, She's gien me monie a jirt an' fleg.
▪ II. jert, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 9 jirt.
[A phonetic variant or parallel form of jerk.]
1. = jerk v.1
1566Drant Horace A vij, They ierted vp their horse with whippes. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 42 An other tower..that is not so wide as a belfree, and a Cobler cannot iert out his elbowes in. 1600― Summer's Last Will in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 52, I jerted my whip, and said to my horses but hay. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 134 You shall on the suddaine chocke him in the weeks of the mouth, and iert his head vp aloft. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xx. 165 Withdrawing himself..with a jerting turn towards the left hand. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 117 That only gars you jirt out the words.
2. dial. To throw a stone by jerking the arm against the hip: = haunch v.3
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