shirk, sherk

t. & i. [The same word as shark, v. (q. v.)] A. Transitive : *1. To procure by mean tricks; to shark. 2. To avoid or get away from unfairly or meanly; to slink away from. B. Intransitive: I. Literally : 1. The wreck of a ship; the destruction or lo at sea of a ship. by striking on a rock or shoal, foundering, or other cause. "Thrice I suffered shipwreck ."-2 Corinth . xi. 25. *2. The shattered fragments of a wrecked ship; wreck, wreckage. "They might have it in their own country, and that by gathering up the shipwrecks of the A then i an and Roman theaters."-Dryden. II. Fig .: Destruction, ruin. "Did afterward make a ship wrack violent, Both of their life and fame for ever fowly blent." Spenser: F. Q., II. xii. 7. (1) To make shipwreck: To go astray, to err. (1 Tim . i. 19.) (2) To make shipwreck of : To ruin, to destroy; as, To make shipwreck of one's chances ship'-wrěck, v. t. [SHIPWRECK, 8.] IMG:content-1360.png:[blocks in formation] "Shipwrecked upon a kingdom, where no pity, No friends, no hopeļ no kindred weep for me." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., iii. 1. II. Fig .: To ruin, to destroy. "Those minor differences which had so often ship wrecked the fortunes of a great Party." -London Stand. ard .