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Use "skedaddling" in a sentence
""skedaddling" is simply the action of "jabbling," or shaking the contents of milkpails of which the yoke is not accurately balanced on the milkmaid's shoulders."
"Dutchman who, terribly frightened at the sight of the red-coats, fled wildly across a deserted hay-field, and stepped suddenly upon the end of a long hay-rake left behind by the "skedaddling" farmers."
"This incongruous expression has, since the outburst of the Cain and Abel contest in America, become familiar in our mouths -- not precisely as household words, for Englishmen, we trust, will be never given to "skedaddling;" but as any other eccentric Transatlanticism, such as "absquatulating," "taking tracks,""