jerkle

present singular third person jerkles · participle present jerkling · participle past jerkled · past jerkled

1. ambitransitiveTo move with repeated jerks.

   The truck jerkled but this was nearing his limits. The truck began to slide across the street. Thank good Binks Meat Products truck was full.

   2019, Jerri O'Powell, Andrean, Deslar & Paper Gods

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   A sad tear jerkled down the side of his nose, hesitated a moment, gathered itself bitterly together, and in utter dejection let go all holds and dashed itself to pieces on the floor.

   1917, The Black Cat, volume 23, page 12

   […] while moulting, particularly when its neck lost many of the feathers, bare places being visible here and there, it seemed unable to swallow, and shook its food out of its bill with a jerkling motion of the head; […]

   2005, James A. Murray (F.S.A.L.), The Avifauna of the Island of Ceylon