Ponting

Quick meaning: Ponting is a noun meaning the act of posing until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.

Meaning

the act of posing until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.

Example Sentences

After horse exercising I went up the Ramp, and in the afternoon posed, or as we call it here, "ponted" for Ponting with several of the others as a foreground to the hut and Mount Erebus in the cinematograph.

When Ponko was not ponting or processing his plates or teaching his colleages how to take photographs, he had an additional duty to lecture to the party of thirty-three who were over wintering at the base camp on Cape Evans.

Ponting came along and after complimenting us on our villainous appearance, begged us to remain picturesque until the sun showed enough light for a photograph! Luckily we had only to wait a few hours for this specimen of 'ponting'.

Clissold the excellent cook, who should have gone with the motor party, tumbled off a small iceberg and concussed himself while posing or 'ponting' as it had come to be known- Griffith Taylor, with his usual wit, had defined 'to pont' as 'to spend a deuce of a time posing in an uncomfortable position'.

Word Forms

• pontings

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