jerk†

[back formation from jerky, q.v.]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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preserve meat by cutting it into strips or flakes and drying it in the sun.

See: jerky

Quotations

1770

[The Boethuk] take care to provide for . . . scarcity . . . by jerking yenison, seal's flesh, and fish. . . .

1852

Instead of cutting the meat in strips, and drying it, (or jerking it, as the lumberers term it), she roasted it before the fire. . . .

1963

. . . the meat can be "jerked" and temporarily preserved until the nearest wild game storage centre can be reached.