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noun

Somerset, Somersault n. (Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. "The vaulter's sombersalts." "Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset."

Summerset, Summersault n. See Somersault, Somerset.

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... re-dipped the pen he was using; at their entry, instead of wiping it, he had laid it on the table with the nib overhanging. At the last retreat his coat-tails came in contact with the pen, and down it rolled, first against the back of the chair, thence turning a summersault into the seat, thence falling to the ...

— Under the Greenwood Tree • Thomas Hardy