curvet

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The French called vessels of this size corvettes, from the Italian word corvettore, to leap or bound, from which we have derived the word curvet.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles

This plan has its advantages; it allows, for instance, the writer's pen to curvet as well as the artist's pencil.

From Comic Bible Sketches Reprinted from "The Freethinker" by Foote, G. W. (George William)

The spirited animal began to curvet and rear, as if proud of his burthen.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de