Definition of "jaunt"

jaunt

/ˈd͡ʒɔːnt/

noun
plural jaunts
1. (archaic) A wearisome journey.
  Quotations
  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. M[acock] for John Starkey […]
  Fie, what a jaunt have I had.
  1597, William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
2. A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
  Quotations
  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
verb
third-person singular simple present jaunts, present participle jaunting, simple past and past participle jaunted
1. (intransitive) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
2. (intransitive) To ride on a jaunting car.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To jolt; to jounce.
  Quotations
  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. (obsolete) To tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.