summerset
IPA: sˈʌmɝsɛt
noun
- Archaic spelling of somersault. [Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degrees while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet passing over one's head.]
verb
- Archaic spelling of somersault. [To perform a somersault.]
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Examples of "summerset" in Sentences
- Before she has gained the surface, she throws a summerset.
- The mule run away with his plow and throwed him a summerset.
- As a Summerset resident, I can provide some improved content.
- Summerset is also considered an ideal example of urban sprawl.
- I am currently a resident of Summerset and I voted for incorporation.
- Many subdivisions and master planned communities are found in or near Summerset.
- There was blackberry pie and huckleberry wine and little Maria with her summerset bangs.
- That he throws himself at full length with a gesture approaching to a 'summerset' on satin sofas.
- -- That he throws himself at full length with a gesture approaching to a 'summerset' on satin sofas.
- “But, if my devotion, as you are pleased to call my summerset, saved you, did it not save me too, for here we are, all three of us, in first-rate health?
- We all three fired at the same instant, and some dozen gulls made a summerset in the air, and with flapping wings and dangling legs, fell into the water.
- A second savage attempted to gain the eminence which commanded the position where the scouts were posted, but just as he was about to attain his object, McClelland saw him turn a summerset, and, with a frightful yell, fall down the hill, a corpse.
- As I came in sight of the bridge, the cause of delay was too manifest, for the Somerset had made a summerset in good earnest, and overturned so completely, that it was literally resting upon the ground, with the roof undermost, and the four wheels in the air.
- It will be seen by the shape of this, that it will fly up as easily as a ball when it is laid in the trap, for the striker has only to tap one end of it, and up it flies, making many a summerset as it rises; while it is performing this turn-over motion, which philosophers call the rotatory, the striker makes a blow at it and sends it whither he pleases.