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Definition of Jerkings
1. jerking [n] - See also: jerking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jerkings
Literary usage of Jerkings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1891)
"There were at that time jerkings and stiffening of the limbs, and symptoms most
peculiar. She died on Tuesday at 5 AM Post-mortem changes came on very ..."
2. Guardian Spirits: A Case of Vision Into the Spiritual World, Tr. from the by Heinrich Werner (1847)
"Soon there came on more violent jerkings and agitations of the whole body, lasting
some minutes, with short interruptions. At length she fetched a deep ..."
3. A Banquet of Jests and Merry Tales by Archibald Armstrong (1889)
"... Why did you kisse her lippes, and not her taile, seeing they were both made
of one flesh ? Of a Frieze jerkings. AN honest good fellow having worne a ..."
4. The Medical Times and Gazette (1874)
"You have seen how in that disease the jerkings occur when the patient is making
... The character of the jerkings ak> differs, for in the sclerosis they are ..."
5. Canada Medical Journal and Monthly Record of Medical and Surgical Science edited by George E. Fenwick, Francis Wayland Campbell (1869)
"The nocturnal jerkings were worse than ever, and the general strength was ...
The headache, albumen, jerkings, and node disappeared together and within two ..."
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