Usually means: Leaped forward with arched back.
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  1. curveted: Merriam-Webster
  2. curveted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curveted: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. curveted: Wiktionary
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  8. Curveted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Curveted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. curveted: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (curvet)

verb:  (intransitive) Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to leap about, dart or jump.
verb:  (of a bird) To fly or swim with darting movements.
verb:  (figuratively) (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic.
verb:  (figuratively) (of an object) To jump, skip, shake.
noun:  A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once.
noun:  A prank; a frolic.
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