"darting" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1905, Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker, The Birds of Tunisia, page 221:",
          "text": "Its flight is fairly swift, and at times very darting or jerky.",
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          "ref": "1989, James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, page 429:",
          "text": "Violent darting pains in the head preventing sleep.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jessica Stirling, The Haldanes:",
          "text": "Stella was very quick, very darting.",
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          "text": "Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.",
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          "text": "Violent darting pains in the head preventing sleep.",
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