Dictionary entry

Falcade

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fal‐cade″ (făl‐kād″), n. [F., ultimately fr. L. falx, falcis, a sickle or scythe.] (Man.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. Harris.