curvet

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Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

There they go, prancing over the ground, causing their gaily caparisoned steeds to caper and curvet, especially in front of the tiers of seated señoritas.

From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by Evans, L.

Yet there remains, to fill thy Soul with Care, A Blanket to curvet thee in the Air.

From Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by Guerinot, J. V. (Joseph V.)

Pannade, pa-nād′, n. the curvet of a horse.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various