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Meaning:

Proper noun:

  • A city in North Yorkshire, England.
  • Former name (before 1834) of Toronto.
  • from=Old English|dot= from the city or the county; See also [[Yorke.
  • The House of York, a Wars of the Roses. The name comes from the fact that its members were descended from Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York; their symbol was a white rose.

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Verb:

  • cricket to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.

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