BURKE

Burk, Martha Jane Burk, Burke, Martha Jane Burke, Calamity Jane

(noun) United States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903)

Burke, Edmund Burke

(noun) British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)

burke

(verb) get rid of, silence, or suppress; “burke an issue”

burke

(verb) murder without leaving a trace on the body

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Proper noun

Burke

A topographical surname for someone who lived in a fortified place.

Any of various places in the United States, including

A small city, the county seat of Gregory County, South Dakota.

Anagrams

• Buker, Burek, burek

Etymology

Eponymous, from William Burke.

Verb

burke (third-person singular simple present burkes, present participle burking, simple past and past participle burked)

(UK, slang) To murder by suffocation

(UK, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.

(UK, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.

Noun

burke (plural burkes)

(British, slang) Alternative form of berk

Anagrams

• Buker, Burek, burek

Source: Wiktionary

Burke, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burkeder, p. pr. & vb.n. Burkinger.] Etym: [From one Burke of Edinburgh, who committed the crime in 1829.]

1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question. The court could not burke an inquiry, supported by such a mass of a affidavits. C. Reade.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition