stotting

• I can easily imagine how little Ibe [27] will be stotting about the house and garden. —  Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
• Bang! went the other barrel, which the hare acknowledged by two or three stotting bounds and an increase of pace. —  Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
• "Well, then," says this philosopher, "what is to prevent a man making two balloons, flattish, and in the form of wings, which, instead of flying away with him, as ordinary balloons would infallibly do, should be so proportioned to his size and weight as that they would not do more than raise him an inch or so off the ground, and so keep him stotting and bobbing lightly about, something like the bright thin india-rubber balls with which children are wont to play now-a-days? —  Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages
• The classic example of this is "stotting" behavior in healthy young gazelles, where these animals jump up and down in front of a predatory leopard rather than-what would seem to be a smarter move-immediately running away. —  MachineMachine (formerly 'The Huge Entity')
• Sylvia's mother says "our Sylvia's stotting. .so you'd better keep out the way ... and the operator. .etc. (2 minutes) —  Latest amIright Song Parodies

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