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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Jerk, v. t.  [imp. & p. p. Jerked p. pr. & vb. n. Jerking.]
 1.  To beat; to strike. [Obs.]
 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.