sb. or a. Obs. In jerkin beef = jerked beef: see JERK v.2

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1612.  Capt. Smith, Map Virginia, 17. As drie as their ierkin beefe in the West Indies.

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1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 39. Jerkin Beef, which is hufled, and slasht through, hung up and dryed in the Sun.

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