Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A jolting; a shaking up, as by much walking. See quotation under jaunt, n., 1.
  • To ride hard.
  • To be jolted or shaken up, as by much walking; walk about till much fatigued. See quotation under jaunt, intransitive verb, 1.

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

  • intransitive verb obsolete To ride hard; to jounce.

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  • verb to prance, to frolic

Etymologies

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Perhaps from Old French.

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