jerking

jerking
    adj 1: lacking a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn:
           {arrhythmic}, {jerking}, {jerky}]
    n 1: an abrupt spasmodic movement [syn: {jerk}, {jerking},
         {jolt}, {saccade}]
    

Jerk \Jerk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Jerked} (j[~e]rkt); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Jerking}.] [Akin to yerk, and perh. also to yard a
   measure.]
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   1. To beat; to strike. [Obs.] --Florio.
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   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.
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   3. To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the
      hand; as, to jerk a stone.
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Jerking \Jerk"ing\, n.
   The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk. --
   {Jerk"ing*ly}, adv.
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50 Moby Thesaurus words for "jerking":
      anhydration, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning,
      convulsive, corning, curing, dehydration, desiccation, dry-curing,
      drying, eclamptic, embalming, evaporation, fidgetiness, fidgets,
      fidgety, fitful, formication, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming,
      irradiation, itchiness, jerky, jiggety, jumpy, marination,
      mummification, orgasmic, pickling, potting, pruritus,
      quick-freezing, refrigeration, saltatory, salting, seasoning,
      smoking, spasmodic, spastic, stuffing, taxidermy, tinning,
      twitchety, twitching, twitchy, vellication, vellicative