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LURCHED
Verb
lurched
simple past tense and past participle of lurch
Source: Wiktionary
LURCH
Lurch, v. i. Etym: [L. lurcare, lurcari.]
Definition: 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. Etym: [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. Etym: [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.]
Definition: 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.]
Definition: To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
Lurch, v. i. Etym: [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 Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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