Lunge
[lʌn(d)ʒ] or [lʌndʒ]
Definition
(noun.) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward.
(verb.) make a thrusting forward movement.
Typed by Kevin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
(v. i.) To make a lunge.
(v. t.) To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.
(n.) Same as Namaycush.
Editor: Rochelle
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pass, thrust, allonge, longe.
Typist: Sam
Definition
n. a sudden thrust in fencing.—v.i. to give such.—v.t. to cause to plunge.
Checked by Gilbert
Examples
- As he makes a lunge towards one horseman, another runs a spear into him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With this, he whipped his sword out, and made a lunge at my uncle without further ceremony. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Before he could wrench the blade free again, the bull's quick lunge to seize him in those awful arms had torn the weapon from Tarzan's grasp. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But then the first mate lunged forward upon his face, and at a cry of command from Black Michael the mutineers charged the remaining four. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- As I had lunged I had turned so that his sword merely passed beneath the muscles, inflicting a painful but not dangerous wound. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I ducked beneath his outstretched arms, and as he lunged past me planted a terrific right on the side of his jaw. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A huge black, standing directly before him, lunged backward as though felled by an invisible hand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He was breathing in lunges. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He came one day as the coachman was lunging Georgy round the lawn on the gray pony. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was no more lunging about now. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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