v. Obs.–0 [f. L. lurcāt-, ppl. stem of lurcāre, -ārī.] intr. To eat ravenously. Hence Lurcation.
1623. Cockeram, Lurcate.
1644. Vindex Anglicus, 6. (in list of ‘ink-horn’ terms).
1661. Blount, Glossogr. (ed. 2), Lurcation,… a greedy eating or gluttonizing.
