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Webster 1913 Edition

Capriole

Cap′ri-ole

,
Noun.
[F.
capriole
,
cabriole
, It.
capriola
, fr. L.
caper
goat. Cf.
Caper
,
Verb.
I.
Cabriole
,
Caprice
,
Cheveril
.]
1.
(Man.)
A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
2.
A leap or caper, as in dancing.
“With lofty turns and caprioles.”
Sir J. Davies.

Cap′ri-ole

,
Verb.
I.
To perform a capriole.
Carlyle.

Webster 1828 Edition

Capriole

CAPRIOLE

,
Noun.
In the manege, caprioles are leaps that a horse makes in the same place without advancing, in such a manner that when he is at the highth of the leap, he jerks out with his hind legs, even and near. It differs from the croupade in this, that, in a croupade, a horse does not show his shoes, and from a balotade, in which he does not jerk out.

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