somerset

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som·er·set

also sum·mer·set (sŭm′ər-sĕt′)
n.
See somersault.
intr.v. som·er·set·ted, som·er·set·ting, som·er·sets also sum·mer·set·ted or sum·mer·set·ting or sum·mer·sets
To perform a somersault.
[Alteration of somersault.]
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Somerset

(ˈsʌməsɪt; -ˌsɛt)
n
(Placename) a county of SW England, on the Bristol Channel: the Mendip Hills lie in the north and Exmoor in the west: the geographical and ceremonial county includes the unitary authorities of North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset (both part of Avon county from 1975 until 1996): mainly agricultural (esp dairying and fruit). Administrative centre: Taunton. Pop (excluding unitary authorities): 507 500 (2003 est). Area (excluding unitary authorities): 3452 sq km (1332 sq miles)

Somerset

(ˈsʌməˌsɛt)
n
(Biography) 1st Duke of, title of Edward Seymour. ?1500–52, English statesman, protector of England (1547–49) during Edward VI's minority. He defeated the Scots (1547) and furthered the Protestant Reformation: executed
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Noun 1. [画像:Somerset - a county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel]Somerset - a county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel
England - a division of the United Kingdom
2. [画像:Somerset - an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return]somerset - an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
tumble - an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end
flip-flop - a backward somersault
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Aunt Polly entered in time to see him throw a few double summersets, deliver a final mighty hurrah, and sail through the open window, carrying the rest of the flower-pots with him.
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So saying, he blew out the candle, kicked off his shoes, and groped his way up stairs; leaving his delighted young friend in an ecstasy of summersets on the pavement.
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I have seen him do the summerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no thicker than a common pack-thread in England.
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"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?
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The black, glassy eyes glittered with a kind of wicked drollery, and the thing struck up, in a clear shrill voice, an odd negro melody, to which she kept time with her hands and feet, spinning round, clapping her hands, knocking her knees together, in a wild, fantastic sort of time, and producing in her throat all those odd guttural sounds which distinguish the native music of her race; and finally, turning a summerset or two, and giving a prolonged closing note, as odd and unearthly as that of a steam-whistle, she came suddenly down on the carpet, and stood with her hands folded, and a most sanctimonious expression of meekness and solemnity over her face, only broken by the cunning glances which she shot askance from the corners of her eyes.
I spects I 's the wickedest critter in the world;" and Topsy would cut a summerset, and come up brisk and shining on to a higher perch, and evidently plume herself on the distinction.
As he paced along the margin of the lake he would burst into frequent fits of laughter, while he recollected the summerset of Hiram: and, on the whole, he thought the affair a very capital joke.
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Before she has gained the surface, she throws a summerset. The instant she is on her legs, she rushes backward.
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The article goes further to focus more exclusively on their artistic performances and professional skills without highlighting their individual and national identities: They vault over a line of twelve persons with as much facility as Gulliver cleared the hills of Lilliput; and their double summersets are apparently as easy as those of the shafts of the windmills, indeed, they resemble so many "serial machines." But, probably, their most surprising feat is that of forming a column or pyramid by four piled up, as in the engraving, the stoutest and the tallest occupying the place of the base; besides which, he bears another Arab around his waist, and one upon each shoulder, whilst the topmost figure can touch the proscenium curtain.
Moroccan acrobats in Britain: oriental curiosity and ethnic exhibition
On the other hand, it is wrong to "turn too many feeble summersets in the air." Vigor and resilience are fine: "We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto." But the ultimate aim should be "Sentences uttered with your back to the wall....
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal, Volume 4, 1851-1852

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