Burkite

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• burke — burker, burkite /berr kuyt/, n. /berrk/, v.t., burked, burking. 1. to murder, as by suffocation, so as to leave no or few marks of violence. 2. to suppress or get rid of by some indirect maneuver. [after W. Burke, hanged in 1829 in Edinburgh for… …   Universalium