curvet
curvet is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.
- noun. A prank; a frolic.
- noun. To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.
- noun. To leap and frisk; to frolic.
- transitive verb. To cause to curvet.
- noun. a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
- verb. perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse
Synonyms
Common word forms
curvets, curveted, curveting, curvetted, curvetting
Words from these letters
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