Obs. Also 6 -salt(e. [Alteration of OF. soubresaut (see SOBERSAULT) after L. super.] A somersault; also fig. hyperbole, exaggeration.
1503. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., II. 387. Item, to the Inglis spelair, that playit the supersalt, v Franch crounis.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 474. Sayand of him, with sic ane supersalt, That he wes neuir noittit with ane falt.
1547. Bk. Marchauntes, f iiij b. He made a supersault and willyngly as a tumbler fell downe as in a sown, feining to be rauished.
1572. Sir T. Smith, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. III. 20. Vaulting with notable supersaltes & through hoopes.
