The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demivolt \Dem"i*volt`\, n. [Cf. F. demi- volte.] (Man.) A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.
Wiktionary
n. A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his forelegs in a particular manner.
Usage examples of "demivolt".
After quickly recombing his hair and twirling his mustache, he looked no different from the Demivolt Stencil had last seen in '99.
The ill-starred year in Florence - Demivolt having popped up again - now came back to him, each unpleasant detail quivering brightly in the dark room of his spy's memory.
So they made their way down Strada Stretta, Demivolt looking like a jaunty anarchist with the black bundle under one arm.
Stencil raised the question to Demivolt: had they been turned out to pasture here?
His musings were interrupted by Demivolt, who came stumbling in the door.
Stencil had kept his promise to Demivolt - had waited to see what Fairing would do.
Whether or not he must now betray Demivolt, Stencil suspected he'd be little use henceforth in either preventing or manipulating for Whitehall's inscrutable purposes whatever would happen in June.