To encourage, to cheer up.
1856. It ’ll chirk you up and dew you good to go out into socierty agin.—Whitcher, ‘The Widow Bedott Papers,’ No. 7.
1878. Ef there’s a mortal thing I can do to help ye, or chirk ye up, I want to do it, right off.—Rose T. Cooke, ‘Happy Dodd,’ chap. xii.
