Definition of "cheval" []

• A horse; hence, a support or frame. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "M. said, "_À cheval, Madame, je voyage à cheval_.""
• "He was no longer young, -- he had already been once married, -- I looked up at this moment, I do not know by what chance, and my eyes fell on a long glass, what they call a cheval-glass in France, my dear, showing the whole figure."
• "Chivalry (derived through the French cheval from the Latin caballus) as an institution is to be considered from three points of view: the military, the social, and the religious."