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  • verb Present participle of stot.

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  • Rain which falls hard enough to bounce at least an inch above its landing spot.

    November 30, 2007

  • Thanks, this will be a very useful word for me.

    November 30, 2007

  • Ooh, goodie! (runs off to add it to the kipling list)

    November 30, 2007

  • AND: (for the noun stot) a springing gait of certain bovids, as gazelles and antelopes, used especially when running in alarm from a predator; or (for the verb stotting) to run with such a gait.

    See also pronk. :-)

    November 30, 2007

  • Reesetee: that seems to imply it doesn't belong on my Kipling list, if there is actually a verb with infinitive "to stot". Because a baby antelope might answer: "I've never stotted".

    December 1, 2007

  • Hmm. Definitely a problem. What if you don't count baby antelopes? Might that help?

    December 1, 2007

  • cf. pronking

    January 11, 2009