capriole

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
2. isim A leap or caper, as in dancing.

   “With lofty turns and caprioles.”

3. fiil To leap; to caper.
4. fiil To cause (one's mounted horse) to perform a capriole.

   “Brawny fighters, all cased in buff and iron, their hearts too sheathed in oak and triple brass, caprioled their huge war-horses, shook their death-doing spears; and went forth in the most determined manner, nothing doubting.”