lurch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sudden or unsteady movement.

   “the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard”

2. fiil To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.

   “It occurred to me there was no time to lose, and dodging the boom as it once more lurched across the deck, I slipped aft and down the companion stairs into the cabin.”

3. fiil To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

   “Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.”

4. fiil To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
5. fiil To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
6. fiil To rob.

   “And in the brunt of seventeen battles since / He lurched all swords of the garland.”

7. isim A lift or heave.
8. isim A predicament or difficult situation.

   “to leave someone in the lurch”

9. isim An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
10. isim A double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.

    “August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.”

11. fiil To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
12. fiil To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.

    “Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.”