Shirk, 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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.