vbl. sb. [f. BURKE v. + -ING1.] a. The action of murdering in Burke’s fashion. b. fig. The action of stifling or quietly but effectively suppressing.
1831. Southey, Lett. (1856), IV. 252. The burking must make every one see the necessity of this.
1831. Sir J. Scarlett, in Trial of T. B. Hodgson, 373. As bad as those who have been lately convicted of burking.
1880. A. Forbes, in 19th Cent., 195. The despotism of burking is not to be tholed.
