demivolt

English

Etymology

Compare French demi-volte.

Noun

demivolt (plural demivolts)

1. A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his forelegs in a particular manner.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “demivolt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)