burke

Meanings

1. To murder by suffocation.
2. To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
3. To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.

1. Alternative form of berk.

1. A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. A ghost town in Shoshone County, Idaho.
4. A town and village therein, in Franklin County, New York.
5. A small city, the county seat of Gregory County, South Dakota.
6. A minor city in Angelina County, Texas.
7. A town in Caledonia County, Vermont, named after Edmund Burke.
8. A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia.
9. An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington.
10. A town and unincorporated community therein, in Dane County, Wisconsin, named after Edmund Burke.
11. A local government area in north-west Queensland, Australia, named after Robert O'Hara Burke; in full, the Shire of Burke.

Etymology

Eponymous, from William Burke.