Meaning

(obsolete) A high leap..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A high leap.
2. (obsolete) A billy goat or small roebuck.
3. (obsolete) A tendril.
4. (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;

A little Wall lay sculking about this Territory of the Dead, which we suppos'd was plac'd there as a Bulwark to their Ashes, but it prov'd but a feeble Fence against the Intrusion of the Lambs, who made frequent Capreols into this adjacent Dormitory.

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!

Noblissimo's First Gentleman remarks 'Your Lordship rid to day beyond Perseus on his Pegasus' and Noblissimo, modestly deferring, 'No Monsieur, he went (if Poets speak truth) in higher Capreols than ever I shall make my Horse go'.

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.

It may be remarked, that Bellenden, in the translation of Boethius which he undertook (probably about the year 1536) at the request of King James V., while he omits the cervi, capreols, and even the lutroe, mentions bevers without the slightest hesitation.

In the Latin of course the billy goat is caper from which we have the obsolete word capreol, meaning nothing more nor less than a plain billy goat. But if I had spoken of a capreol my untutored enemies would never have understood my drift.

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Use capreol when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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