cur|vet

cur|vet
cur|vet «noun. KUR viht; verb. kur VEHT, KUR viht», noun, verb, -vet|ted, -vet|ting or -vet|ed, -vet|ing.
–n.
a leap in the air made by a horse. The forelegs are raised first and then the hind legs, so that all four legs are off the ground for a second.
–v.i.
1. to leap in this way.
2. to cause one's horse to do this.
3. to leap about; frisk: »

porpoises keeping a rendezvous in the Gulf of Aden and curvetting by the hundred, high in the air, in a kind of courtship ballet (New Yorker).

–v.t.
to cause (a horse) to make a curvet.
╂[< Italian corvetta (diminutive) < corvo curve < Latin curvus curved, bent]

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