Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the manège, a leap of a horse in which all four legs are bent without jerking out the hind ones. Also spelled
balotade .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Man.) A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dressage A
leap of ahorse , as between twopillars , or on a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.
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