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(of a horse) To leap about, frolic.
:* 1963', Firelily, under him, seemed sexually aroused, she '''curveted and frolicked so about the line of march, covering five miles to the prisoners’ one. — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.
A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as his forelegs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.
A prank; a frolic.
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(nautical, historical) A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
(nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.