Definition of "lunge" []

• A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword. (noun)
• A sudden forward movement or plunge. (noun)
• To make a sudden thrust or pass. (verb-intransitive)
• To move with a sudden thrust. (verb-intransitive)
• To cause (someone) to lunge. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In the previous post I discussed the basic anatomy and behaviour involved in lunge-feeding, a style of predation practiced by rorquals, the biggest, fastest and most dynamic of baleen-bearing cetaceans."
• "It seems that the rapid acceleration and deceleration, and the dynamic movement, involved in lunge-feeding is highly costly, forcing rorquals to limit their dive time, and to increase the time that they need to spend at the surface recovering (Acevedo-Gutiérrez et al. 2002)."
• "To the ring he fastened a long "lunge" - rope, which was well named."