yerga (yerga)

[Cf. Ru . (Co ack) ergakú, IMG:content-2693.png:[graphic] IMG:content-2694.png:[graphic] Scott , Ivanhoe, xxix. (yō'man-ri), n. [Early mod. E. also + -ry (see -ery).] 1. The collective estate or body of yeomen; yeomen collectively. Gentyllys and zemanry of goodly lyff lad. A Middle English form of yark1. God haffe mersey on Robyn Hodys solle, And saffe all god yemanrey ! Robin Hood and the Potter (Child's Ballads, V. 32). Next after the gentry, in respect of that political weight which depends on the ownership of land, was ranked the great body of freeholders, the yeomanry of the middle ages. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 480. 21. Service; retainers; those doing a va al's service. Then Robin Hood took those brethren good To be of his yeomandrie. IMG:content-2695.png:[blocks in formation] "Be mey trowet, thow seys soyt," seyde Roben, "Thow seys god yemenrey . Robin Hood and the Potter (Child's Ballads, V. 22). 4. A volunteer cavalry force originally embodied in Great Britain during the wars of the French revolution, and consisting to a great denly; jerk; move with a jerk. [Obsolete or provincial.] He yerked up his trousers. S. Judd, Margaret, i 5. 3. To bind or tie tightly or with a jerk. [Scotch.] But he is my sister's son-my own nephew our flesh and blood - and his hands and feet are yerked as tight as cords can be drawn. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, lii. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary yerk II. in trans. 1. To lash out, as a horse; kick. [Obsolete or provincial.] I holde him not for a good beast that when they lade him will stand stock stil, and when they unlade him will yerke out behinde. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 81. The horse, being mad withal, yerked out behind. North . 2. To move with sudden jerks; jerk. [Obsolete or provincial.] Skud from the lashes of my yerking rime. Marston, Scourge of Villanie, i., Prol.