[-ING2.] That curvets: see the verb.
1599. Marston, Sco. Villanie, III. xi. 228. His very intellect Is naught but a curuetting Sommerset.
1750. Wesley, Wks. (1872), II. 185. A fine curvetting horse.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 490. Rushed through the drawn swords and curvetting horses.
1878. M. A. Brown, Nadeschda, 25. On his curveting chargers back.