lunge

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
2. n. A sudden forward movement or plunge.
3. v. To make a sudden thrust or pass.
4. v. To move with a sudden thrust.
5. v. To cause (someone) to lunge.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In fencing, a thrust.
2. n. 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.
3. To thrust, as in fencing, with the sword or foil; make a thrust forward; plunge.
4. To hide; skulk.
5. To cause to move in a plunging or jumping manner, as a horse held by a long rein, for exercise or training.
6. n. Same as longe.
7. n. 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.

Wiktionary

1. n. A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
2. n. 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.
3. n. An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning back to a standing position.
4. n. A fish, the namaycush.
5. v. To make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
6. v. To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
2. v. To make a lunge.
3. v. To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter.
4. n. (Zoöl.) Same as namaycush.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make a thrusting forward movement
2. n. (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward
3. n. the act of moving forward suddenly