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单词 caracol
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caracolcaracolen.

/ˈkarəkɒl/ /ˈkærəkəʊl/
Forms: Also 1600s caragolo, carrocol.
Etymology: < French caracol, caracole, < Italian caracollo wheeling of a horse, < Spanish caracol (and Portuguese caracol ) snail, periwinkle, spiral shell, also winding stair; in sense 1 Catalan has caragol, Italian also caragollo. Ulterior derivation doubtful: see Diez and Skeat.
1. A spiral shell. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell
seashella900
shale1561
buckie1596
caracol1622
valve1661
spire1681
umbilicus1688
conch-shell1697
wart-shell?1711
needle1713
multivalve1753
concha1755
periosteum1758
conch1773
devil's claw1773
furbelow1776
peewit's egg1776
worm-tube1776
rosebud1815
sheath1815
periostracum1833
epicuticle1885
epicuticula1886
leg of mutton1891
trivalve1891
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxvii. 60 Certaine shels, like those of Mother of Pearles, which are brought out of the East Indies, to make standing cups, called Caracoles.
2. Architecture. ‘A term sometimes applied to a staircase in the form of a helix or spiral’ (Gwilt).
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1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Caracol.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
3. A half-turn or wheel to the right or left executed by a horseman. Littré gives the sense in French as ‘a succession of such wheels to right and left alternately, movement in a zigzag course’, which appears to have been the earlier sense in English also. Many writers have used the word without any clear notion of its meaning: see caracol v.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > half turn or wheel
caracol1614
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > [noun] > types of turn
repolon1598
caracol1614
demi-voltea1648
passade1652
pirouette1667
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry (1668) i. i. 21 In the Art of Horsemanship, there are divers and sundry turns..those we call Caragolo.
1643 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 103 Now was Sr Wm Constable crept out of Hull wth their Horse making their Carrocols upon ye woulds.
a1679 Earl of Orrery Guzman (1693) iv What a Caracole he made, when you fac'd about.
1792 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 94/1 They sometimes ride up in caracols, to perplex the enemy.
1810 Encycl. Brit. V. 171 In the army, the horse always makes a caracol after each discharge, in order to pass the rear of the squadron.
1825 W. Scott Talisman xv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 333 The challenger..made his courser carry him in a succession of caracoles to his station.
1863 W. Thornbury True as Steel I. 145 Chargers pacing with curvets and caracoles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

caracolcaracolev.

Etymology: < French caracole-r, Italian caracollare to caracol, wheel about: see caracol n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcaracol.
1. intransitive. Of a horseman or horse: To execute a caracol or caracols. Often used loosely for ‘to caper about’. Also transferred of other animals.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride a prancing or capering horse
to beat a curvet1607
caracol1656
curvet1695
capriole1837
cavort1844
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > leap or prance
tripc1386
prancea1398
brank?1400
leapc1405
gambol?1507
curvet1584
jet1587
jaunt1605
scope1607
stilt1786
caracol1813
prank1842
cavort1843–4
tittup1862
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > caper
leapc900
playOE
floxec1200
startlec1300
trancec1374
prancec1380
tripc1386
scoupa1400
prankc1450
gambol1508
frisk?1520
jeta1529
pract1568
trounce1568
trip1578
capriole1580
lavolta1590
linch1593
curvet1595
flisk1595
firk1596
caper1598
jaunce1599
risec1599
cabre1600
jaunt1605
skit1611
to cut a caper or capersa1616
tripudiate1623
insult1652
to fike and flinga1689
scamper1691
dance1712
pranklea1717
cavort1794
jinket1823
gambado1827
caracol1861
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Caracol, to cast themselvs into a round ring, as souldiers do.
1785 Sportsman's Dict. To caracol is to go in the form of half rounds.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. xix. 83 Now caracol'd the steeds in air.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine ii The Captain on his..steed caracolling majestically.
1861 G. Meredith Evan Harrington III. xii. 194 Once that sound used to set me caracoling before an abject multitude.
2. transitive. To make (a horse) caracol.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > cause to move in other specific manner
extend1727
unite1799
caracol1835
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 44 He was fond of caracolling his horse.
1845 J. Saunders Cabinet Pictures of Eng. Life: Chaucer 82 The youthful knight..caracolled his horse along the pavement.

Derivatives

ˈcaracoling n. and adj. (also caracolling)
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > capering
jetting1440
gambolling1525
frisking1572
capering1598
scampering1691
caprioling1821
caracoling1837
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > capering
startlingc1405
gambolling1538
frisking1566
capering1595
caper-cuttinga1640
caracoling1837
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [adjective] > performing specific movement
caracoling1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. vi. 368 Caracoling Bodyguards.
1843 E. Miall in Nonconformist 3 209 We crave indulgence for a little caracolling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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