capreols

Noun

capreol (plural capreols)

1. (obsolete) A high leap.
   • Ixion[…]turn'd dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavaltoes1631, Ben Jonson, Chloridia
2. (obsolete) 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
3. (obsolete) 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
4. (obsolete) 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