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Lurch vs Reel - What's the difference?

lurch | reel |

As nouns the difference between lurch and reel

is that lurch is amphibian while reel is real (reality).

As an adjective reel is

real (true, fact, not fictional).

lurch

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(es)
  • A sudden or unsteady movement.
  • the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • 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)
  • To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
  • (obsolete) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
  • * South
  • Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant.
  • (obsolete) To steal; to rob.
  • * Shakespeare
  • 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)
  • (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • 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

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

    Anagrams

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    reel

    English

    (wikipedia reel)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
  • A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound
  • a log reel , used by seamen
    an angler's reel
    a garden reel
  • A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
  • (McElrath)
  • A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
  • A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wind on a reel.
  • To spin or revolve repeatedly.
  • To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
  • He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.
  • To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=30 citation , passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
  • * Bible, Psalms cvii. 27
  • They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • He, with heavy fumes oppressed, / Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest.
  • * Macaulay
  • the wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves
  • (reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
  • He reeled back from the punch.
  • To make or cause to reel.
  • To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled .
  • To be in shock.
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
  • New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers.
  • (obsolete) To roll.
  • * Spenser
  • And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel .

    Quotations

    ; to stagger * 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 111 *: Sarah reels a little, nevertheless, under the dog's boisterous greeting.

    Derived terms

    * reel in * reel off

    Anagrams

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