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cavaletto

cavaletto is the alternative form of cavalletto.

Meaning of cavalletto

Noun

cavalletto (plural cavallettos or cavalletti)

  1. (plural "cavallettos") A specialized gantry crane for loading and unloading cargo ships that attaches to and moves along guides on the ship's hatchway.
    • To increase the unloading rate it is possible to use various cavallettos placed over different holds, although the ship-to-ship transfer is the peculiarilty of the cavalletto.1983, Patrick Finlay, Coal--trade, transportation and handling
  2. (plural "cavalletti") A long pole placed horizontally at a height of 4 to 20 inches from the ground, used in training horses.
    • The first introduction to a cavalletto comes at the end of a line of poles.1973, Sheila Willcox, The event horse, →ISBN, page 91
  3. (historical) The punishment of being placed in a pillory and whipped.

Forms of cavaletto

pluralcavalettos
pluralcavaletti

Questions about cavaletto

What is cavaletto the alternative form of?
Cavaletto is the alternative form of cavalletto.

Words near cavaletto in the dictionary

  1. cavaleries
  2. cavalero
  3. cavaleros
  4. cavalery
  5. cavaletti
  6. cavaletto
  7. cavalettos
  8. cavalier
  9. Cavalier County
  10. Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
  11. Cavalier King Charles Spaniels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cavaletto (page history and authors); cavalletto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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