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Definition of Curvet
1. Verb. Perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse.
2. Noun. A light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down.
Definition of Curvet
1. n. A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.
2. v. i. To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.
3. v. t. To cause to curvet.
Definition of Curvet
1. Verb. (context: of a horse) To leap about, frolic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curvet
1. to prance [v -VETED, -VETING, -VETS or -VETTED, -VETTING, -VETS] - See also: prance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curvet
Literary usage of Curvet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies, as Well as Private Tuition by Charles Hutton, Robert Adrain (1818)
"... of curvet. DEF. 1. A curve is a line whose several parts proceed in different
directions, and are successively posited towards different points in space ..."
2. Etymologicon Magnum, Or Universal Etymological Dictionary, on a New Plan by Walter Whiter (1800)
"The furniture from Cu*B» because the Horse makes CRUPPER. ) of a Horse. Curb.
There is something, I think, I this curvet, ..."
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