Some old people are very adventurous indeed, and are prepared to go jaunting off to new places and to new faces at the drop of a hat.
They also manufactured traps, gigs, landaus, jaunting carts, carriages, floats and dray carts.
Killarney is also famous for its jaunting cars (horse-drawn carts) operated by local jarvies.
Jaunting has other effects on the social fabric of the novel's world, and these are examined in true science-fictional fashion.
Jaunting is the instantaneous teleportation of one's body (and anything one is wearing or carrying).