[f. LURCH v.3 + -ING2.] That lurches or leans suddenly over.

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1884.  ‘Hugh Conway,’ Called Back, 12. A staggering, uncertain, lurching kind of step.

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1892.  G. Lascelles, Falconry (Badm. Libr.), 225. Whilst the falcons are fine-tempered generous birds,… the hawks are shifting, lurching fliers.

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1895.  Daily News, 18 Dec., 5/4. The lurching movement and recoil of the ship prevented him.

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1901.  Blackw. Mag., June, 751/2. The Devons tramp after over the lurching pontoon.

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  Hence Lurchingly adv.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. IV. v. It lumbers along, lurchingly with stress, at a snail’s pace.

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1851.  H. Melville, Whale, xxx. 142. Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.

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