jaunt

plural jaunts

1. archaicA wearisome journey.

   Fie, what a jaunt have I had.

   1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet

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   Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest.

   1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC

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

   Some days later it happened that young Heriotside was stepping home over the Lang Muir about ten at night, it being his first jaunt from home since his arm had mended.

   1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

present singular third person jaunts · participle present jaunting · participle past jaunted · past jaunted

1. intransitiveTo ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
2. intransitiveTo ride on a jaunting car.
3. obsoletetransitiveTo jolt; to jounce.

   To get into a Grecian car, and to be drawn, with Minerva at his back[…]four or five miles through the streets of London‥after having quietly suffered himself to be jaunted about in this manner

   1818, Cobbett's Weekly Political Register

4. obsoleteTo tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.