Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PONT'LE-VIS
PON'TINE, or POMP'TINEPON-TOON'
PONT'LE-VIS, n.
In horsemanship, a disorderly resisting of a horse by rearing repeatedly on his hind legs, so as to be in danger of coming over. – Bailey.
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