Lurch \Lurch\, v. i. [L. lurcare, lurcari.]

To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. [Obs.]

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Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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. [1913 Webster]

2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. [1913 Webster]

Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch. --Walpole. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

But though thou'rt of a different church, I will not leave thee in the lurch. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Lurch \Lurch\, v. i. [A variant of lurk.]

1. To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]

2. To dodge; to shift; to play tricks. [1913 Webster]

I . . . am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Lurch \Lurch\, v. t.

1. To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.]

[1913 Webster]

Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant. --South. [1913 Webster]

2. To steal; to rob. [Obs.]

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And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He lurched all swords of the garland. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Lurch \Lurch\ (l[^u]rch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurched (l[^u]rcht); p. pr. & vb. n. Lurching.]

To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man; to move forward while lurching. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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lurch

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)