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noun

Jaunt n.

A wearisome journey. (R.) "Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aery jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest."

A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.

verb

Jaunt v. t. To jolt; to jounce. (Obs.)

Jaunt v. i. (past & past part. jaunted; pres. part. jaunting)

To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

To ride on a jaunting car.

Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. (Written also jaunty car)

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Etymology of 'Jaunt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jaunt" Quotes from Famous Books

... twenty yards ahead of Bart at the end of a two miles' jaunt, when he shied to the extreme edge of the road and ...

— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman

... hills, and discuss philosophy, and recite their poems the livelong day. It was on one such jaunt that out of the ghost of shoreless seas they sighted the "Ancient Mariner." Then Coleridge went ahead, completed the plot and gave the poem to the world. And once he said, half-boastfully, to Dorothy: "This old seafaring poem is valuable in that it is a ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... have some melancholy doubts; which, however, it would be ungenerous to harbour without further inquiry — My uncle, who has made me a present of a very fine set of garnets, talks of treating us with a jaunt to London; which, you may imagine, will be highly agreeable; but I like Bath so well, that I hope he won't think of leaving it till the season is quite over; and yet, betwixt friends, something has happened to my aunt, which will ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... months. She was restless and filled with a desire to see something of the wild country of which her brother had told her so much. She was to be married the next winter, and Wyllis understood her when she begged him to take her with him on this long, aimless jaunt across the continent, to taste the last of their freedom together. It comes to all women of her type—that desire to taste the unknown which allures and terrifies, to run one's whole soul's length ...

— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather

... Georgian gentlemen, who had chilled their southern blood that morning on the top of Mount Washington; a physician and his wife from Conway; a trader of Burlington, and an old squire of the Green Mountains; and two young married couples, all the way from Massachusetts, on the matrimonial jaunt, Besides these strangers, the rugged county of Coos, in which we were, was represented by half a dozen wood-cutters, who had slain a bear in the forest and smitten ...

— The Great Stone Face - And Other Tales Of The White Mountains • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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