Lurch:

(1) To devour; to swallow greedily.

"Too far off from great cities may hinder business; or too near lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear."

-Bacon's Essays.

(2) To defeat; to disappoint. A word now only used in burlesque. (From the game lurch.)

(3) To steal privily; to filch; to pilfer.