capreol
capreol noun: a high leap.
Noun
capreol (plural capreols)
- A high leap.
- Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes1631, Ben Jonson, Chloridia
- Run through the field with frisks and kicks, In various capreols and tricks, Some ease poor thing, alass, to find;1670, Virgil, Scarronides; Or Virgile Travestie, page 73
- A billy goat or small roebuck.
- 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.1661, Robert Lovell, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, Both Ancient and Modern
- 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.1821, Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society - Volume 3, page 211
- A tendril.
- For the Gourd is full of braunches, and beareth great broad leaues, and by the helpe of tendrels, or capreols quickly claspeth, catcheth hold, and climbeth vp to a great height, and maketh a pleasant Arbor to sit vnder, and to defende a man from the heat of the pearching Sunne.1587, Levinus Lemnius, An Herbal for the Bible, page 177
- The white beares white berryes, and somtimes white leafes, emitting certaine branches or capreols out of the midst of its leafs, wherewith it so strictly complects the Trees, that it kills them by sucking their humour from them;1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 403
- A side brace.
- Over these other beams, wellwrought from timbers of 2 fee , are placed around; upon which the transtræ and capreols, ( the principal rafters and braces, ) being placed coincident with the zophorus, antæ , and walls of the pronaos, sustain one culmen (the horizontal piece of timber in the ridge of...1854, Robert Stuart, Cyclopedia of Architecture, page 340
Examples of capreol in a sentence
- 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!1756, John Dove, An Essay on Inspiration, page 182:
- 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.1910, San Francisco Daily Times - Volume 19, page 6:
- Vine, Vitis, the Capreols, Tendrels, and Claspers ( like those of the Hop, & c. ) whilst very young, have an agreeable Acid, which may be eaten alone, or with other Sallet .1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets, page 72:
Forms of capreol
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Questions about capreol
- What does capreol mean?
- Capreol means a high leap.
- How do you use capreol in a sentence?
- 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!
- What part of speech is capreol?
- Capreol is a noun.
- What is the plural of capreol?
- The plural of capreol is capreols.
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