Citations:girk

English citations of girk

1582, Richard Mulcaster, Elementarie‎^[1]:
The polysyllab therefor for the chefe girk of his sound riseth vpon the third syllab from the end, as the bissyllab doth of the second.
1685, Samuel Collins, The Second Volume, Containing The Parts of the Middle and Highest Apartiment of Man's Body (And other Animals)‎^[2], Thomas Newcomb, page 686:
The Tendinous Fibres pass through the Center to the Circumference as so many Rays, and about the Foramen (enclosing the Origen or left Orifice of the Stomach) are seated many Circular Fibres, which being convulsed, do cramp the beginning of the Ventricle with repeated Girks, vulgarly called Hiccops.
1913, W. R. Scott, “The Trade of Orkney at the End of the Eighteenth Century”, in The Scottish Historical Review‎^[3], volume 10, Edinburgh University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 364:
the cask fell with a sudden girk to the sand

1650, Alexander Read, The Workes of that Famous Physitian Dr. Alexander Read, 2nd edition, volume 2, E.G., page 114:
[…] if after girking of it the party wounded feele paine in the part
1834, Alexander Fraser, A Verbatim Report of the Cause Doe Dem. Tatham V. Wright: […] , volume 2, W. Barwick, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 151:
I was filing the fronts of the teeth which makes a girking and sqeaking^[sic] noise, and he asked me, "What tunes could be played upon that instrument;" I told him it was not an instrument for playing upon, but that it was a saw for cutting wood with.
1870, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 41, Harper, page 478, column 2:
the yankey Girked his Gun from his Shoulder […]