Meaning of штуршо́к | Babel Free

Definitions

1. push, shove (a short, directed application of force; an act of pushing)
2. jolt, impact (an abrupt and rough shake)
3. push (a force that impels or pressures one to act)
   figuratively
4. clean and jerk

Examples

“From this transport, he was abruptly recalled to terrestrial objects, by a poke from Miss Nipper, which sent him into the shop.”

“Seizing Cora by the rich tresses which fell in glossy confusion about her form, he tore her from her frantic hold, and bowed her down with brutal violence to her knees.”

He seized Cora by her rich scattered tresses, tore the girl from Alice and pushed her to her knees with a strong shove.

“And then at last, quite softly and gently, we came to rest. So delicate was the impact that we should hardly have known of it had it not been that the light when turned on showed great coils of the hawser all around us.”

“I was just thinking how busy drink and the devil were at that very moment in the cabin of the Hispaniola, when I was surprised by a sudden lurch of the coracle. At the same moment, she yawed sharply and seemed to change her course.”

“The first shock of a great earthquake had, just at that period, rent the whole neighbourhood to its centre.”

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