lurch

lurch englannista suomeksi

1. hoippua, horjua

2. maleksia

3. kiikkua

4. hoipertelu

5. löylyttää

6. selkäsauna

7. ampaisu

8. keikahdella

9. kallistuminen

1. horjua

lurch englanniksi

1. A sudden or unsteady movement.

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2. (quote-book)|author=William O. S. Gilly|location=London|publisher=John W. Parker|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15301/pg15301-images.html|passage=The ship was driving rapidly towards the rocky coast, against which she must have been dashed to pieces had she kept afloat a few minutes longer, but she gave a lurch and went down, rose again for an instant, and with another lurch sank, and all was over,—and there were nearly two hundred and fifty human beings struggling with the waves.

3. (RQ:Falkner Moonfleet)

4. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.

5. (RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)

6. (RQ:Doyle Lost World)

7. (RQ:Burroughs Monster Men)

8. (RQ:Maugham Moon and Sixpence)

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

10. (RQ:Bacon Essayes)

11. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.

12. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole.

13. August 14, 1784, (w), ''letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway''

Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.

14. To someone in the lurch; to cheat.

15. (RQ:South Twelve Sermons)

16. To rob.

17. (RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)

18. To evade by stooping; to lurk.

19. To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (gloss).