Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To dart; shoot out.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly.

Etymologies

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dart +‎ -le

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Examples

  • Sometimes, on hot summer nights, clouds form angrily in the distance; vivid flashes dartle hither and about, which serve to intensify the evening darkness.

    A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901

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  • (archaic) To dart or shoot forth repeatedly. From WWFTD. :-)

    February 19, 2009