jerking : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: jerking	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for jerking
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jerking adj lacking a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn: arrhythmic, jerking, jerky] n an abrupt spasmodic movement [syn: jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jerk \Jerk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jerked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Jerking}.] [Akin to yerk, and perh. also to yard a measure.] 1. To beat; to strike. [Obs.] --Florio. 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. 3. To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jerking \Jerk"ing\, n. The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk. -- {Jerk"ing*ly}, adv.