weather lurch

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• 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• weather roll — noun The lurch of a vessel to windward when in the trough of the sea • • • Main Entry: ↑weather …   Useful english dictionary

• lurch — {{11}}lurch (n.1) sudden pitch to one side, 1784, from earlier lee larches (1765), a nautical term for the sudden roll which a ship makes to lee ward in a high sea, when a large wave strikes her, and bears her weather side violently up, which… …   Etymology dictionary

• lurch — Synonyms and related words: abandon, amble, barge, bend, bent, bias, blunder, bob, bobble, bowl along, bumble, bundle, capsize, careen, career, clump, coggle, come a cropper, crook, dangle, desert, disposition, drag, droop, drop, fall, fall down …   Moby Thesaurus

• lurch — n 1. list, roll, reel, pitch, toss, tumble; swing, sway, veer, swerve, skew; stagger, totter. v 2.(all of a ship) roll, reel, pitch, toss, pitch and toss, toss and tumble, tumble, flounder, welter, wallow, make heavy weather, be the sport of wind …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• snap — Synonyms and related words: Photostat, Telephoto, Wirephoto, X ray, Xerox, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, abrupt, ad lib, adaptability, aerial photograph, aggressiveness, alertness, animation, articulate, attack, automatic,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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