Definitions for Lurch
lɜrtʃlurch

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.7 / 6 votes

1. lurch, stumble, staggernoun

   an unsteady uneven gait

2. lurchnoun

   a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)

3. lurch, pitch, pitchingnoun

   abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

   "the pitching and tossing was quite exciting"

4. lurch, lungeverb

   the act of moving forward suddenly

5. stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careenverb

   walk as if unable to control one's movements

   "The drunken man staggered into the room"

6. lurch, pitch, shiftverb

   move abruptly

   "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"

7. lurchverb

   move slowly and unsteadily

   "The truck lurched down the road"

8. prowl, lurchverb

   loiter about, with no apparent aim

9. lurch, skunkverb

   defeat by a lurch

GCIDERate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Lurchverb

   To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man; to move forward while lurching.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lurchnoun

   A sudden or unsteady movement.

2. lurchverb

   To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lurchnoun

   Etymology: This word is derived by Skinner from l'ourche, a game of draughts, much used, as he says, among the Dutch; ourche he derives from arca; so that, I suppose, those that are loft are left in lorche, in the lurch or box; whence the use of the word.

2. To Lurchverb

   Etymology: lurcor, Latin.

   1. To devour; to swallow greedily.

   Too far off from great cities may hinder business; or too near lurcheth all provisions, and maketh every thing dear. Francis Bacon, Essays.

   2. To defeat; to disappoint. A word now used only in burlesque. [from the game lurch.]

   He waxed like a sea;
   And, in the brunt of seventeen battles since,
   He lurcht all swords o’ th’ garland. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   God never designed the use of them to be continual; by putting such an emptiness in them, as should so quickly fail and lurch the expectation. Robert South, Sermons.

   This is a sure rule, that will never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant. Robert South, Sermons.

   3. To steal privily; to filch; to pilfer.

3. To Lurchverb

   Etymology: loeren, Dutch; or rather from the noun.

   1. To shift; to play tricks.

   I myself, sometimes leaving the fear of heav’n on my left-hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. William Shakespeare.

   2. To lie in wait: we now rather use lurk.

   While the one was upon wing, the other stood lurching upon the ground, and flew away with the fish. Roger L'Estrange.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lurchverb

   to swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up

2. Lurchnoun

   an old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables

3. Lurchnoun

   a double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch

4. Lurchverb

   to leave in the lurch; to cheat

5. Lurchverb

   to steal; to rob

6. Lurchnoun

   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

7. Lurchverb

   to roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man

8. Lurchverb

   to withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk

9. Lurchverb

   to dodge; to shift; to play tricks

10. Etymology: [OF. lourche name of a game; as adj., deceived, embarrassed.]

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1. LURCH

   LURCH is a tool for software design debugging that uses a nondeterministic algorithm to quickly explore the reachable states of a software model. By performing a partial and random search, LURCH looks for faults in the model and reports the pathways leading to the faults.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lurch

   lurch, n. an ancient card-game: in cribbage, the position of the party who has gained every point before the other makes one.—v.t. to overreach: (arch.) to steal.—Leave in the lurch, to leave in a difficult situation without help. [O. Fr. lourche.]

2. Lurch

   lurch, v.i. to evade by stooping, to lurk: to roll or pitch suddenly to one side (as a ship).—n. a sudden roll of a ship.—n. Lurch′er, a name applied to any dog with a distinct cross of greyhound: one who lies in wait: a glutton. [Lurk.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lurch

   A heavy roll, weather or lee, as occasioned by a sea suddenly striking or receding from the weather-bilge of the vessel.--To be left in the lurch is to be left behind in a case where others make their escape.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. LURCH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lurch is ranked #113791 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Lurch surname appeared 154 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lurch.
   
   59.7% or 92 total occurrences were White.
   29.2% or 45 total occurrences were Black.
   5.8% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Cards
   • Defeat
   • Gait
   • Loiter
   • Motion
   • Move
   • Ship

Anagrams for Lurch »

1. churl

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Lurch in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Lurch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Lurch in a Sentence

1. Mickey Mehta:

   Neither Buddha built a Buddhist temple nor did Christ build a Catholic church, but these humans in their name have left the spirituality seekers in the lurch. No religious organizations have ever delivered God to humans, yes an idea of God may have been made available. The divinity has to be self realized, stop searching in temples, look within and get MickeyMized.

2. Jeff Bock:

   We have to prepare for the inevitability that one, or more, of the major chains may not survive if this situation continues to lurch into next summer, the number of movie theaters that will close on a permanent basis will be directly proportional to how long it takes the US to stomp out the virus.

3. Ross Gerber:

   Tesla's biggest issue is poor communication. They continue to lurch from announcement to announcement with lot of uncertainty.

4. Diane Derzis:

   This was always a very busy clinic. So we realize the numbers of women who are going to be left in the lurch and will have to travel out of state, or continue a pregnancy, or do something themselves. It's the latter that worries you more than anything else. Because there's definitely desperation.

5. Jason Miller:

   Directionally Biden's liberal policies really scare people, and more are unaware of the crazy leftist lurch Joe Biden's made since the primary, i would expect them to be fully educated on all of it by Election Day though.

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