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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cavault v.

[Ling. Fr. cavolta, riding]

to have sexual intercourse; one of a number of words equating sex with horseriding.

c.1698, 1785, 1796, 1811, 1823		implied in cavaulting school
1859, 1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 63: Cheminer [...] To copulate; ‘to cavault’.

In compounds

cavaulting school (n.)

a brothel.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.