Jaunce
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- jaunce To ride hard.
- jaunce To be jolted or shaken up, as by much walking; walk about till much fatigued. See quotation under jaunt, intransitive verb, 1.
- n jaunce A jolting; a shaking up, as by much walking. See quotation under jaunt, n., 1.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- v.i Jaunce jäns (Shak.) to jolt or shake: to ride hard
- n Jaunce a jaunt
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OF. jancer,. Cf. Jounce Jaunt
In literature:
It would apparently be a variant of "jaunce," of the same meaning, which is supposed to be taken from O. Fr.
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 3" by Various
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