Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lurch"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lurch \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lurch \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lurch \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lurch \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lurch \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lurch \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lurch
n 1: an unsteady uneven gait [syn: {stumble}, {stagger}]
2: abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other
conveyance); "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"
[syn: {pitch}, {pitching}]
3: the act of moving forward suddenly [syn: {lunge}]
v 1: walk as if unable to control one's movements [syn: {stagger},
{reel}, {keel}, {swag}, {careen}]
2: move abruptly [syn: {pitch}, {shift}]
3: move slowly and unsteadily; "The truck lurched down the
road" [syn: {stagger}]
4: loiter about, with no apparent aim [syn: {prowl}]
5: defeat by a lurch, as in certain card games [syn: {skunk}]
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