The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lurch \Lurch\ (l[^u]rch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lurched
   (l[^u]rcht); p. pr. & vb. n. Lurching.]
   To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken
   man; to move forward while lurching.
   [1913 Webster +PJC]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "lurching":
   broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, dangling, desultory,
   deviative, disconnected, discontinuous, eccentric, erratic, fitful,
   flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky,
   heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, intermittent, intermitting,
   irregular, jerky, nonuniform, patchy, pitching, rambling, reeling,
   rocking, rolling, rough, scrappy, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic,
   spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, swaying,
   swinging, tossing, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical,
   unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady,
   unsystematic, variable, veering, wandering, wavering, wobbling,
   wobbly