BURKES
Noun
burkes
plural of burke
Anagrams
• Bukers, Bureks, bureks, busker
Source: Wiktionary
BURKE
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