Capreol
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Capreol is a noun meaning (obsolete) A high leap.
Meaning
(obsolete) A high leap.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A billy goat or small roebuck.
- (obsolete) A tendril.
- (obsolete) A side brace.
Example Sentences
Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes
Run through the field with frisks and kicks, In various capreols and tricks, Some ease poor thing, alass, to find;
the wild boare and sow, red and fallow deere, roebuck, and capreol, hare, conie, and squirrels, & c. of which, see more in their proper places.
Ye know the capers our friends cut, their transnatural leaps exceed the capreols at Sadler's, or those of Del Phobo, or the dance of Merlin's giants: fools!
Word Forms
- capreols
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vault, salt, vaut, precipice, sault, sparre.
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