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Definition of Burking

Burking
Burke Burke, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burked; p. pr. & vb. n. Burking.] [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.

Meaning of Burking from wikipedia

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- In biochemistry, the Lineweaver–Burk plot (or double reciprocal plot) is a graphical representation of the Michaelis–Menten equation of enzyme kinetics...
- Willis Burks II (October 25, 1935 – November 21, 2010), sometimes credited as Willis Burks or Willis Burks Jr., was an American television, film, stage...
- Charlotte Gentry Burks (born October 3, 1942) is a farmer and Democratic party politician in Tennessee who represented the 15th district as State Senator...
- Burks is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Alec Burks (born 1991), American basketball player who plays shooting guard and currently plays...
- Alec Burks (born July 20, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball ****ociation (NBA). He...
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