cheval
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A horse; hence, a support or frame.
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A player going bank may either do so on a single hand, in the ordinary course, or a cheval, i.e. on two hands separately, one-half of the stake being played upon each hand.
A classic example of the latter is the cheval glass, which may be tilted.
The same is true for cheval pluralized as chevaux and many others.
Applications A cheval glass Reflections in a spherical convex mirror.
The cheval-vapeur main (ch) unit should not be confused with the French cheval fiscal main (CV).