tantivy
at full gallop: to ride tantivy.
(used as a hunting cry when the chase is at full speed.)
Origin of tantivy
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How to use tantivy in a sentence
The wild tantivy boy had vanished, and the sobriquet of "Tavern Knight" was fast becoming a misnomer.
The Tavern Knight | Rafael SabatiniIn the common-room one day sat as merry a company of carousers as ever gladdened the soul of an old tantivy boy.
The Tavern Knight | Rafael SabatiniIs it strange that I became known as the wildest tantivy boy that rode with the King?
The Tavern Knight | Rafael SabatiniThe schooner “tantivy” of this port went ashore on Kessingland beach during a dense snowstorm.
Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood | William Finch-CrispHe was a Tory of the highest sort, such as in the cant of his age was called a tantivy.
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) | Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Dictionary definitions for tantivy
/ (tænˈtɪvɪ) /
at full speed; rapidly
plural -tivies a hunting cry, esp at full gallop
a hunting cry, esp at full gallop
Origin of tantivy
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