lee-lurch

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LEE'-LURCH, noun A sudden and violent roll of a ship to leeward in a high sea. LEE'-SHORE, noun The shore under the lee of a ship, or that towards which the wind blows.
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