Shirk

Definition of Shirk

v. t.	1.	To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. [imp. & p. p. Shirked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shirking.] You that never heard the call of any vocation, . . . that shirk living from others, but time from Yourselves. - Bp. Rainbow.
	2.	To avoid; to escape; to neglect; - implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty. The usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties. - Hare.
v. i.	1.	To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
	2.	To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. One of the cities shirked from the league. - Byron.
n.	1.	One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

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