2 uses
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Definition
to avoid something — such as a duty or responsibility
- He came between him and the shirks he should have punished.Chapter 3 — The Dominant Primordial Beast (51% in)
- This was the pride that bore up Spitz and made him thrash the sled-dogs who blundered and shirked in the traces or hid away at harness-up time in the morning.Chapter 3 — The Dominant Primordial Beast (50% in)
There are no more uses of "shirk" in The Call of the Wild.
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