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volte, volt|vɒlt, vəʊlt|
[a. F. volte, ad. It. volta: see volta.]
†1. A kind of dance; = volta, lavolta. Obs.
1586E. Hoby tr. Cognet's Polit. Disc. Truth xi. 39 The Voltes, courantes, and vyolent daunses proceede from furie. 1597T. Morley Introd. Mus. 181 Like vnto this [the Bransle] (but more light) be the voltes and courantes which being both of a measure, are notwithstanding daunced after sundrie fashions. 1610Dowland Var. Lute-lessons R 2, Voltes for the Lute.
2. Fencing. A sudden dexterous movement to avoid a thrust.
1688Holme Armoury iii. xix. (Roxb.) 160/1 A Volt..is when thy adversarie doth thrust at thee which thou perceiueing, dost first put by his thrust; and just turne [sic] thy body round about, with thy back towards thine adversarie thrusteth him with a quarte in his right brest. 1765Angelo Sch. Fencing 44 You must..with swiftness and agility perform this turn of the body called volte. 1771Lonnergan Fencer's Guide 104 When I disengage a Quarte, single your body from the thrust, by quickly forming a Volt. 1861G. Chapman Foil Practice 34 The volt or spring to the right or left [being] occasionally put in practice. 1889A. Hutton Cold Steel 90 Make a complete volte or turn about on the toe of the right, bringing the left foot well behind it.
†b. volt-coupe, a feint in fencing.
1692Sir W. Hope Fencing Master 46 The Volt-coupe, single and double. Ibid. 65 Then make use of the Double Volt-Coupe..after you have made your Feint. 1696R. H. Sch. Recreat. 87 Lesson 12. Of Volt Coupe.
3. In the manège, a circular movement executed by a horse. (Cf. the earlier demi-volte.)
1727Bailey (vol. II), Volte (in Horsemanship) signifies a round or a circular Tread. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., A Renversed Volt, is a Track of two Treads, which the Horse makes with his Head to the Centre, and his Croup out. 1884E. L. Anderson Mod. Horsem. ii. xvii. 148 The school gallop is employed in traversing, and for voltes and pirouettes. The horse may be made to traverse and to do the voltes in the ordinary gallop.
4. Turn, change. rare—1.
1901Meredith Hueless Love viii, So has there come the gust at South-west flung By sudden volt on eves of freezing mist. |