darting

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Verb

1. present participle of dart#English|dart

Noun

darting (plural dartings)

1. A motion or gesture that darts.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     During this period, a different set of abnormal mouth-movements made their appearance: forced protrusions of the lips, propulsion of the tongue, and occasional choreic dartings of the tongue.

   • 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home

     Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.

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