English-French translations for lurch

• embardée
  - (DE) Monsieur le Président, il ne fait aucun doute que vous avez amarré solidement un bateau qui fait des embardées à destination du quai Tejo ici. - (DE) Mr President, there is no question that you have securely moored a lurching ship to the Tejo Quay here.
• faire une embardée

Definition of lurch

• A sudden or unsteady movement
• To make such a sudden, unsteady movement
• To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up
• An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables
• To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat
• To rob
• To evade by stooping; to lurk

Examples

• the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard

Related words

• lurcher
• leave someone in the lurch
• lee lurch
• leave somebody in the lurch