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Definitions for: Lurch
[n] abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
[n] an unsteady uneven gait
[n] the act of moving forward suddenly
[v] defeat by a lurch, as in certain card games
[v] loiter about, with no apparent aim
[v] move abruptly
[v] walk as if unable to control one's movements
[v] move slowly and unsteadily; "The truck lurched down the road"
Webster (1913) Definition: Lurch, v. i. [L. lurcare, lurcari.]
To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
[Obs.]
Too far off from great cities, which may hinder
business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions,
and maketh everything dear. --Bacon.
Lurch, n. [OF. lourche name of a game; as adj.,
deceived, embarrassed.]
1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of
the game of tables.
2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his
adversary has been left in the lurch.
Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.
--Walpole.
To leave one in the lurch.
(a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so
far behind that the game is won before he has scored
thirty-one.
(b) To leave one behind; hence, to abandon, or fail to
stand by, a person in a difficulty. --Denham.
But though thou'rt of a different church, I will
not leave thee in the lurch. --Hudibras.
Lurch, v. t.
1. To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.]
Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
--South.
2. To steal; to rob. [Obs.]
And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He
lurched all swords of the garland. --Shak.
Lurch, n. [Cf. W. llerch, llerc, a frisk, a frisking
backward or forward, a loitering, a lurking, a lurking,
llercian, llerciaw, to be idle, to frisk; or perh. fr. E.
lurch to lurk.]
A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather;
hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that
by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination
of the mind.
Lurch, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lurching.]
To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken
man.
Lurch, v. i. [A variant of lurk.]
1. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
--L'Estrange.
2. To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch.
--Shak.
Synonyms: careen, keel, lunge, pitch, pitch, pitching, prowl, reel, shift, skunk, stagger, stagger, stumble, swag
See Also: careen, defeat, footle, gait, go, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, locomote, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, motility, motion, move, move, movement, overcome, rock, sway, tarry, tilt, travel, walk
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