curvet

1. 1.

   a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down

   Synonymsvaulting

   Broaderdressage

1. 1.

   perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse

   Broaderjump

Other forms of curvet

plural

curvets·

past tense or participle

curvetted

present participle

curvetting

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about curvet

What does curvet mean?

curvet means "a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in curvet?

curvet has 2 syllables: cur-vet. The stress falls on "cur".

What is another word for curvet?

Close synonyms include vaulting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is curvet a common word?

curvet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.