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I agree with the chairman that on these accounts we couldn't burke this year's dividend.
"Someone's going to come along and burke you."
Mr. Dobrin does not breathe a word about the origin of "to burke."
"To burke" means to murder secretly.
But Mr. Rivenhall was already writhing under the lash of his own conscience, and since, with all his faults, he was not one to burke a clear issue, these remarks found no favor with him.