curvet

Meanings

Verb

• Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.
• To cause to leap about, dart or jump.
• To fly or swim with darting movements.
• (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic.
• (of an object) To jump, skip, shake.

Noun

• A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once.
• A prank; a frolic.

Origin

• From Italian corvetta, diminutive of corva, an early form of curva, from Latin curva, feminine of curvus.