Shirk

1. n. One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.
2. v. t. To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
3. v. t. To avoid; to escape; to neglect; — implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty.
4. v. i. To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.
5. v. i. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.