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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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"Jaunt" Quotes from Famous Books

... the reckless simplicity of boyhood, I maintain that travelling by coach is by no means the least of our sublunary pleasures. Man is a wheelable animal as well as walking one. Winter is the time for a nice inside jaunt. What divine evaporations from the coachman's muzzle! What a joyous creak in the down-flying steps!—and, oh! that comfortable alertness with which we deposit ourselves in the padded corner, and fold our coatflaps over our knees, glance at ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 266, July 28, 1827 • Various

... Sprague's young warrior days the village was three miles from the most suburban limits of the city. There was not even a horse-car, or, as fashionable Warchesterians have it, a "tram," to remind the tranquil villagers that life had any need more pressing than a jaunt to the post twice a day. Some "city folks" did hold villas on the outskirts, but they used them only for short seasons in the late summer, when the air at the lake began to grow too sharp for ...

— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan

... made him a pretty good hand with the file and drill, he got Bill to teach him how to caulk. He shaped first-rate, so one day we thought we'd leave him to it while we went off for a jaunt. Bill had bought an old shot-gun from a farmer, and we'd seen a lot of ...

— Prescott of Saskatchewan • Harold Bindloss

... never been to the Falls; and all our party but my sister Emma, seemed to think it would be a pleasant jaunt." ...

— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... jaunt was to me indeed agreeable; and as he liked to see me in becoming dress, I arrayed myself in white, placed a fillet of pale blue ribbon round my hair and a bouquet of blue forget-me-nots in the bosom of my dress, and thus adorned set forth, sitting ...

— Strange Visitors • Henry J. Horn

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