dartle

From dart +‎ -le.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑː(ɹ)təl/

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dartle (plural dartles)

1. A brief shining; a flicker of light
2. A flit; a darting about movement

dartle (third-person singular simple present dartles, present participle dartling, simple past and past participle dartled)

1. To pierce, shoot, or shine through
   • 1855, Robert Browning, My Star:

     my star that dartles the red and the blue

2. to dart about.
   • 1908, Richard Watson Gilder, The Fire Divine:

     The brooks that sometimes run dry, or hide under the smooth stones;
     In the time of fullness leaping from ledge to ledge down to the big brook that never dries;
     Where the trout dartle and the pools are shadowy and cool […]

   • 1938, Walter Claremartin, Golden Hour of Guchee:

     The crimson banners of Samarkand dartled above the low breakers of drifted sand. Plumed helmets swam along the dunes like shark fins over billows.

• “dartle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• LARTed, alter'd, altred, latred