skedaddling

"skedaddling" is simply the action of "jabbling," or shaking the contents of milkpails of which the yoke is not accurately balanced on the milkmaid's shoulders.

Echoes of the Week, and the International Exhibition 1862

Dutchman who, terribly frightened at the sight of the red-coats, fled wildly across a deserted hay-field, and stepped suddenly upon the end of a long hay-rake left behind by the "skedaddling" farmers.

Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

This incongruous expression has, since the outburst of the Cain and Abel contest in America, become familiar in our mouths -- not precisely as household words, for Englishmen, we trust, will be never given to "skedaddling;" but as any other eccentric Transatlanticism, such as "absquatulating," "taking tracks,"

Echoes of the Week, and the International Exhibition 1862

"skedaddling" of all, while the sparks from the pump-boiler trailed behind, and the two bull's-eyes glared ahead, so that the engine resembled some awful monster rushing through thick and thin, and waving in triumph its fiery tail -- ah! words are but feeble exponents of thought: it was excruciating ecstasy!

Post Haste 1859

A string of three silhouetted children out a Dick-and-Jane primer, grasping hands and skedaddling.

Regulatory Signs! Warning Signs! Marker Signs! And more! | clusterflock 2009

So sorry, Your Grace, says I, skedaddling off into the magnificent African sunset.

Mike Arkus: Photophobia in Africa (or I am a Camera) -- From Menacingly Scowling, Weapons-Wielding Troops to Screaming, Fist-Shaking Scrums of Your Average Citizens Mike Arkus 2010

So sorry, Your Grace, says I, skedaddling off into the magnificent African sunset.

Mike Arkus: Photophobia in Africa (or I am a Camera) -- From Menacingly Scowling, Weapons-Wielding Troops to Screaming, Fist-Shaking Scrums of Your Average Citizens Mike Arkus 2010

So sorry, Your Grace, says I, skedaddling off into the magnificent African sunset.

Mike Arkus: Photophobia in Africa (or I am a Camera) -- From Menacingly Scowling, Weapons-Wielding Troops to Screaming, Fist-Shaking Scrums of Your Average Citizens Mike Arkus 2010

So sorry, Your Grace, says I, skedaddling off into the magnificent African sunset.

Mike Arkus: Photophobia in Africa (or I am a Camera) -- From Menacingly Scowling, Weapons-Wielding Troops to Screaming, Fist-Shaking Scrums of Your Average Citizens Mike Arkus 2010

So sorry, Your Grace, says I, skedaddling off into the magnificent African sunset.

Mike Arkus: Photophobia in Africa (or I am a Camera) -- From Menacingly Scowling, Weapons-Wielding Troops to Screaming, Fist-Shaking Scrums of Your Average Citizens Mike Arkus 2010