Also 9 lounge. [f. LUNGE sb.1]
1. trans. To put (a horse) through his paces by the use of the lunge; to make a horse (occas. his rider) go round the lunge (see LUNGE sb.1 3 b).
1806. Cumberland, Mem., I. 263. You might as safely have backed Bucephalus, before Alexander had lunged him.
1815. Sporting Mag., XLVI. 116. At three [years old] put on the bits and lunge him.
1833. Regul. Instr. Cavalry, i. 72. The horse may be longed to the right.
1845. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., V. II. 529. Being lounged in a circle with great care.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xlvi. As the coachman was lunging Georgy round the lawn on the grey pony.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, II. 406. Armed horsemen are seen lunging their chargers round and round after the manner of a modern circus.
1875. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, II. I. viii. § 5. 454. The colt … may now be taken out and well lunged.
1889. 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. intr. Of the horse: To go round the lunge in a specified direction.
1833. Regul. Instr. Cavalry, II. 75. The rein on the hand to which the horse is longing.
