lungelongen.1
/lʌn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /ləndʒ/ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > tie > thong, lace, or cord
lainera1387
lashc1440
lanyard1483
lingel1538
whangc1540
lunge1607
lore1621
ament1623
thong1665
lad1847
lorum1903
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 94 Their [sc. camels'] feet (although fleshy) are so tyed together with little lunges, that they neuer weare.
2. A long rope used in training horses, being fastened at one end to the horse's head and held at the other by the trainer, who causes the horse to canter round in a circle.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > other gear
trainel1283
forelock1467
trannet1504
lungec1721
allonge1773
long rein1775
housing1809
bandage1828
ankle boot1835
setting muzzle1835
nosebag1839
foot rope1854
breast-cord1861
safe1875
snubbing-post1875
toggery1877
crib-muzzlea1884
c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses vii. 105 He recommends those who stand together in an open Stable..to be secur'd with Two Bindings, and for that Purpose, the Ropes or Longes ought to be so long, that they may easily lie down.
1778 Earl of Pembroke Mil. Equitation 37 In the beginning a longe is useful..to help both the rider and the horse.
1845 Lady H. Stanhope Mem. I. vi. 201 And round this [green plat] the grooms, with longes, were made to run them [two mares] until they were well warmed.
3.
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a. The use of the lunge in training horses.
b. A circular exercising-ground in which the lunge is used; ‘the training ground for the instruction of a young horse’ (G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. 1872–6).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > exercising ground for training horses
lunge1833
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 40 One Manege will thus contain two good circles or longes.
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 78 The horse has rested a little after the longe.
1839 G. Greenwood Hints Horsemanship 87 A horse..should never be compelled to canter in the longe, though he may be permitted to do it of himself.
1886 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 16) 469/2 The colt should be kept going round the lunge, until [etc.].
4. attributive.
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1839 G. Greenwood Hints Horsemanship 88 Such powerful instruments as the longe-cord and whip.
1839 G. Greenwood Hints Horsemanship 90 With the longe-whip in skilful hands.
1868 H. C. R. Johnson Long Vac. Argentine Alps xxix. 153 One of the girths of my saddle, the longe surcingle, and three or four large silk handkerchiefs..gave me, as I thought, length enough.
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lungen.2
/lʌn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /ləndʒ/ 1.
a. A thrust with a sword (spec. in Fencing) or other weapon.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > [noun] > stroke with pointed weapon
stroke1297
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push1563
veny1578
stoccado1582
thrusta1586
venue1591
pink1601
longee1625
stob1653
tilt1716
lunge1748
stug1808
punzie1827
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions
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stopc1450
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quarter-blow1555
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venue1591
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mandritta1595
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passado1597
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pass1604
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longee1625
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traversion1637
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parry1673
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counter1684
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feint1684
passing1687
under-counter1687
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stringering1688
tempo1688
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overlapping1692
repost1692
volt-coupe1692
volting1692
disarm?1700
stamp1705
passade1706
riposte1707
swoop1711
retreat1734
lunge1748
beat1753
disengage1771
disengagement1771
opposition1771
time thrust1771
timing1771
whip1771
shifting1793
one-two1809
one-two-three1809
salute1809
estramazone1820
remise1823
engage1833
engaging1833
risposta1838
lunging1847
moulinet1861
reprise1861
stop-thrust1861
engagement1881
coupé1889
scrape1889
time attack1889
traverse1892
cut-over1897
tac-au-tac riposte1907
flèche1928
replacement1933
punta dritta1961
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xii. 85 My formidable adversary..made a great many half longes, skipping backward every time.
1780 T. Davies Mem. Life David Garrick (1781) I. iii. 23 With the first lunge he killed his adversary.
1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing 5 The distance between the two feet will be found to be..about two-thirds of the distance of the longe.
1823 W. Scott Peveril III. ix. 235 A successful..lounge, by which Peveril ran his gigantic antagonist through the body.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. iv. 71 He made a desperate lunge at Adrian.
1880 S. B. Lakeman What I saw in Kaffir-land 74 A lounge from an assegai through his thigh.
1885 Sat. Rev. 6 June 758/1 If..parried lunges found their match In neat retorts.
b. (See quot. 1817.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > kicking > kick
kick1530
yark1581
lunge1817
fling1852
1817 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire (1818) at Lungeous A lunge is common for a violent kick of a horse, though Dr. Ash has omitted it.
2. A sudden forward movement; a plunge, rush.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > sudden > a sudden dart > forwards
lunge1845
1845 J. J. Hooper Taking Census in Some Adventures Simon Suggs 155 That was a most unfortunate lunge I made into that hole in the river.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xvii. 149 A heavy lunge that told of a big fish.
1882 J. Walker Sc. Poems 127 With a lumbering lunge The freighted vessel left the quay.
1900 Longman's Mag. Aug. 455 The impatient farmer made a sudden lunge at them.
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3. An exercise or gymnastic movement involving a sudden forward or sideways movement, spec. one in which one leg is thrust forward with the knee bent while the other is stretched-out behind the body.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific exercises
breathing1605
breather1802
arm swing1859
setting-up drill1862
grasshopper march1884
lunge1889
push-up1897
sit-up1900
pull-up1901
deep-breathing1904
bag-punching1927
press-up1928
setting-up exercise1935
pullover1936
bear crawl1937
burpee1939
knee-bend1941
leg raise1944
dip1945
uddiyana1949
squat thrust1950
lateral1954
pull-down1956
aquacise1968
step-up1973
abdominal crunch1981
power walking1982
crunch1983
gut-buster1983
stomach crunch1986
1889 G. L. Mélio Man. Swedish Drill 24 In the Large Steps, or Lunges, as shewn in Diagrams 20–21, the foot is placed from 30 to 40 inches, according to the length of limb.
1889 G. L. Mélio Man. Swedish Drill 73 (in figure) Pass, or outward lunge pos[ition].
1910 Health & Strength 12 Mar. 268/2 The Lunge... The pupil takes a fairly long step forward, and simultaneously extends the arm that covers the leg which is put forward.
1957 T. Burns Tumbling Techniques Illustr. 94 Lunge, an abrupt and forceful forward reach, as for a tuck during a forward somersault.
1963 E. Hughes Gymnastics for Girls iii. 55 In the lunge, most of the body weight is on the right leg, which is directly in front of the body.
1971 C. Atwater Tap Dancing ii. 40 You must learn to hold a Lunge while maintaining proper posture.
1981 J. Fonda Workout Bk. (1982) 148 Bring your right foot forward in a ‘lunge’ with your left leg stretched out behind you.
1988 Flex Dec. 104/2 Step ups is a variation of a lunge movement but when I do lunges in the conventional way I just don't seem to feel it as much in the muscle tissue.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lungen.3
/lʌn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /ləndʒ/ North American.
Either of two large North American freshwater fishes, Salvelinus namaycush, a char or lake trout found in northern lakes, or Esox masquinongy, a pike found in the Great Lakes.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox nobilior (maskinonge)
Oswego bass1758
maskinonge1789
muskellunge1794
lunge1851
Oswego1857
muskie1894
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus namaycush (lake trout)
lake trout1661
Oswego bass1758
namaycush1775
siscowet1838
togue1839
touladi1846
lunge1851
Oswego1857
mackinaw trout1961
mackinaw1968
1851 Vermont Laws 49 Such person or persons shall forfeit and pay..the sum of one dollar for each trout or lunge so taken.
1857 Porter's Spirit of Times 11 Apr. 86/3 The lower end of the lake..is supplied with the large catfish,..Oswego, black, longe, great-bass, pike-perch, perch, &c.
1866 Game Laws Vermont in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 62 If any person or persons shall hereafter take..any trout or lunge..he shall pay to the treasurer..the sum of one dollar for each trout or lunge taken.
1866 Game Laws Vermont in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 68 No person shall kill or destroy any trout or lunge.
1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. III) 317 Mackinaw Trout; Great Lake Trout; Longe (Vermont).
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 488 The Lake Trout has other appellatives, such as ‘Lunge’ in Canada..‘Black Lunge’, ‘Silver Lunge’, ‘Racer Lunge’, ‘Black Salmon’.
1887 Literary World (Boston) 23 July 227/2 To troll for ‘lunge’ in the deep waters of Lake Memphremagog.
1894 Outing 24 368/2 ‘It's a 'lunge,’..‘He'll weigh at least fifteen pounds.’
1894 Outing 24 453/2 I led him alongside, where—as a played-out 'longe always will—he remained motionless..for a few seconds.
1902 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 15 246 Longe or lunge, a common abbreviation of muskelunge (maskalonge) among English-speaking people in the region about the Great Lakes.
1953 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. 47 17/1 Recently, thanks to government hatcheries, 'lunge has been added to the menu.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lungev.1
/lʌn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /ləndʒ/ 1. intransitive.
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a. Fencing. To make a thrust with a foil or rapier.
b. Boxing. To deliver a straightforward blow. Const. at.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)] > actions
lunge1809
weave1818
counter1857
lead1895
slip1897
unload1912
smother1916
to bob and weave1928
1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing 23 When longing in the position of tierce.
1814 Sporting Mag. 43 55 Lunging with the right he hit short.
1836 B. H. Smart Walker Remodelled Longe, to make a pass with a rapier.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges ii. 71 Lunging with his rapier, like a fencing-master.
1900 N. Munro in Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 456/1 Count Victor..lunged and skewered him through the thick of the active arm.
c. quasi-transitive with cognate object. To deliver (a kick, a thrust); also with out.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > deal or give (a stroke or blow)
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lunge1735
to lay in1809
wreak1817
to get in1834
1735 Gentleman's Mag. May 252 If Savage lunge'd a thrust, And brought the youth a victim to the dust.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Christmas Bks. (1872) 33 The Mulligan..lunged out a kick.
2. transitive. To drive or thrust with or as with a lunge. Also reflexive said of a heavy body (= 3).
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > push with a lunge
lunge1841
1841 J. Mills Old Eng. Gentleman II. xxvii. 206 M'Donald plunged the rowels deep into his flanks, and lunging him with all his power, hurled the excited creature to the ground.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 4 What he had in tow, lunged itself at him sometimes in an awful manner when the boat was checked.
1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 140 The scorpion instantly lunged his sting into him.
3. intransitive. To move with a lunge; to make a sudden forward movement; to rush. Also with up.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly > forward
lunge1821
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 102 [Fish] at the worm no nibbles more repeat, But lunge from night in sheltering flag-retreat.
1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 330 He [sc. an elephant] lounged furiously at the bars.
1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 63 [He] made for a fauteuil standing opposite to the fire. Into this he lunged.
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. xi. 226 Ripton lunged for the claret-jug.
1880 A. D. Whitney Odd or Even? viii Farmer Heybrook's old brown mare came lungeing up the steep hill.
1900 Longman's Mag. Nov. 67 The jolting and swaying of the cart, as it lunged over the ruts, helped us.
Derivatives
ˈlunging adj.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving with sudden speed or darting > forwards
lunging1857
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. v. 324 Parrying the Slogger's lunging hits.
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4. In callisthenic exercises, to make a sudden forward or sideways movement, spec. in which one leg is thrust forward with the knee bent while the other is stretched out behind the body.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [verb (intransitive)] > specific exercises
lunge1905
knee-bend1961
1905 G. A. McMillan Swedish Recreative Exercises i. xxvi. 57 At ‘hither’, all lunge to the left, and recover, and at ‘thither’, all lunge to the right.
1917 L. Clark Physical Training for Elementary Schools 269 Hands on hips—place! To the right—lunge! Foot—replace!
1971 N. A. Kounovsky Joy of Feeling Fit 106 From a standing position, lunge forward with your right leg... Inhale as you lunge.
1981 J. Fonda Workout Bk. (1982) 165 Now lunge lower.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lungelongev.2
/lʌn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /ləndʒ/ 1. transitive. To put (a horse) through his paces by the use of the lunge; to make a horse (occasionally his rider) go round the lunge (see lunge n.1 3b).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > break a horse > by specific method
lunge1806
kinch1808
ring1814
Rarey1859
Rareyfy1892
Galvayne1905
1806 R. Cumberland Mem. I. 263 You might as safely have backed Bucephalus, before Alexander had lunged him.
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 116 At three [years old] put on the bits and lunge him.
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 72 The horse may be longed to the right, left, and to the right again.
1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 ii. 529 Being lounged in a circle with great care.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlvi. 413 As the coachman was lunging Georgy round the lawn on the gray pony.
1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 406 Armed horsemen are seen lunging their chargers round and round after the manner of a modern circus.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) ii. i. viii. §5. 454 The colt..may now be taken out and well lunged.
1889 M. H. Hayes Illustr. Horse-breaking ii. 64 The generality of men, when they lunge a colt or filly, will circle the young one more to the left than to the right.
2. intransitive. Of the horse: To go round the lunge in a specified direction.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > perform special movements [verb (intransitive)] > go round in a circle
to trot (also gallop) rings1566
lunge1833
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 75 The rein on the hand to which the horse is longing.
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