sb. or a. Obs. In jerkin beef = jerked beef: see JERK v.2
1612. Capt. Smith, Map Virginia, 17. As drie as their ierkin beefe in the West Indies.
1657. R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 39. Jerkin Beef, which is hufled, and slasht through, hung up and dryed in the Sun.