quanting

Then they met a wherry quanting up with the last of the flood.

Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

The dyke had seemed long when they were quanting and towing through it in a calm.

Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

And there was Tom, lifting the long quanting pole, finding bottom with it, and hurrying aft along the side deck, leaning with all his weight against the quant's round wooden head.

Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

Jim Wooddall had indeed been in a hurry, to start quanting his wherry round to the staithe to look for his mate, and old Simon knew that hoisting sail was better than excuses.

Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

Trees on the banks had bothered them a little, but Dick had been allowed to do some quanting.

Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

Tom, for a moment, stopped quanting as they turned the corner.

Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

A quant is a long pole used for quanting] said Tom, 'but don't you think I'd better just hide?'

Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

Let's look at the quant, "and" Is the quant reliable? "or whatever and I thought they sounded like dorks, quanting it up all over the place.

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