A leap or caper, as in dancing.
A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of the hind legs when at the height of the leap.
To leap; to caper.
To cause (one's mounted horse) to perform a capriole.
A spring or leap into the air.
origin
To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.