Lurch vs Earthquake - What's the difference?
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A sudden or unsteady movement.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
(obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
* South
(obsolete) To steal; to rob.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
* Francis Bacon
An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has been left in the lurch.
* Walpole
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
Lurch is a related term of earthquake.
As nouns the difference between lurch and earthquake
is that lurch is amphibian while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.lurch
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(es)- the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
- Yet I hoped by grouting at the earth below it to be able to dislodge the stone at the side; but while I was considering how best to begin, the candle flickered, the wick gave a sudden lurch to one side, and I was left in darkness.
Verb
(es)- Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
- And in the brunt of seventeen battles since / He lurched all swords of the garland.
See also
* leave someone in the lurch *Etymology 2
(etyl) (lena) lurcare.Verb
(es)- Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear.
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
- Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch .
Anagrams
*earthquake
English
(wikipedia earthquake)Noun
(en noun)- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.