darting
noun1
A motion or gesture that darts.
- 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.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- 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.2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home:
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Business, Manufacturing, Sewing, Textiles The use of darts (folds stitched on a garment).