gondoling

Updated: May 11, 2025

The gondolier had been gondoling all his life and he had never been in the water before, and they thought it would strike in and kill him, so they wrapped him up in blankets and put him aboard his canoe, and he looked at me as though I was to blame.

George W. (George Wilbur) Peck - Peck's Bad Boy Abroad: Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad: in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904