[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That jerks: in various senses of JERK v.1
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., I. i. 92. I, Iuuenall: thy ierking hand is good, Not gently laying on, but fetching bloud.
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. Wks. 1776, II. 62. Triplet … in his turn avenged himself of his jerking pedagogue.
1830. Marryat, King’s Own, xxxii. The violent jerking motion of the vessel.
1854. Hooker, Himal. Jrnls., I. xvii. 376. Three sharp jerking shocks of earthquake.
Hence Jerkingly adv., in a jerking manner.
1880. J. E. Burton, Handbk. Midwives, § 42. 29. The limbs begin to move jerkingly.
