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jerk † [back formation from jerky, q.v.] 
v. preserve meat by cutting it into strips or flakes and drying it in the sun.
See also: jerky
- 1770 (1911) [The Boethuk] take care to provide for . . . scarcity . . . by jerking yenison, seal's flesh, and fish. . . .
- 1852 (1881) Instead of cutting the meat in strips, and drying it, (or jerking it, as the lumberers term it), she roasted it before the fire. . . .
- 1963 . . . the meat can be "jerked" and temporarily preserved until the nearest wild game storage centre can be reached.
- 1770 (1911) [The Boethuk] take care to provide for . . . scarcity . . . by jerking yenison, seal's flesh, and fish. . . .