irk

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At the bottom flows, or rather stagnates, the Irk, a narrow, coal-black, foul-smelling stream, full of débris and refuse, which it deposits on the shallower right bank. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

In Manchester, the pauper burial-ground lies opposite to the Old Town, along the Irk: this, too, is a rough, desolate place. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

Irk, to become slothful, grow weary, tire, 2709.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

Near Shuhada is Jabal Warkan, one of the mountains of Paradise, also called Irk al-Zabyat, or Thread of the Winding Torrent.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The south bank of the Irk is here very steep and between fifteen and thirty feet high. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence