Lunge

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  • noun. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
  • noun. A sudden forward movement or plunge.
  • intransitive verb. To make a sudden thrust or pass.
  • intransitive verb. To move with a sudden thrust.
  • intransitive verb. To cause (someone) to lunge.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In fencing, a thrust.
  • noun. Any sudden forward movement of a person or thing resembling the lunge of a fencer; a plunge; a lurch: as, the lunge of a coach.
  • To thrust, as in fencing, with the sword or foil; make a thrust forward; plunge.
  • To hide; skulk.
  • To cause to move in a plunging or jumping manner, as a horse held by a long rein, for exercise or training.
  • noun. A long rope used to train a horse; also, the circular track or ring where horses are trained by cantering them around the edge of the ring in one direction with the aid of a lunge.
  • noun. Same as longe.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
  • intransitive verb. To make a lunge.
  • transitive verb. To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.
  • noun. Same as namaycush.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
  • noun. A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and is used to control the animal while lungeing.
  • noun. An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning back to a standing position.
  • noun. A fish, the namaycush.
  • verb. To make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
  • verb. To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make a thrusting forward movement
  • noun. (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
  • noun. the act of moving forward suddenly