English

Verb

caracoling

1. present participle of caracole

Noun

caracoling ‎(plural caracolings)

1. A caracole, or half-turn.
   • 1839, William E. Burton, Gentleman's Magazine, and Monthly American Review

     Here stood the veteran cavalier, stiff and straight as the old elm against which he leant, casting a wrathful eye upon the wayward caracolings of the lady's palfrey […]