c 3 a 1 v 4 o 1 r 1 t 1
6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb play boisterously
originOriginated in the United States in 1793, as cauvaut, applying to horses, probably from the colloquial intensifying prefix ca-/ka- + vault (“jump, leap”); later generalized. Early sources connect it to cavault, a term for a certain demeanor of horses. Alternatively, a variation of curvet.
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