CANTER
canter, lope
(noun) a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
canter
(verb) ride at a canter; “The men cantered away”
canter
(verb) ride at a cantering pace; “He cantered the horse across the meadow”
canter
(verb) go at a canter, of horses
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Canter (plural Canters)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Canter is the 5374th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6477 individuals. Canter is most common among White (90.12%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Cretan, carnet, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance
Etymology 1
Short for Canterbury pace, from the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury.
Noun
canter (plural canters)
A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals.
A ride on a horse at such speed.
Verb
canter (third-person singular simple present canters, present participle cantering, simple past and past participle cantered)
(intransitive) To move at such pace.
(transitive) To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
Etymology 2
Noun
canter (plural canters)
One who cants or whines; a beggar.
One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
Anagrams
• Cretan, carnet, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance
Source: Wiktionary
Can"ter, n. Etym: [An abbreviation of Caner bury. See Canterbury
gallop, under Canterbury.]
1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
Note: The canter is a thoroughly artificial pace, at first extremely
tiring to the horse, and generally only to be produced in him by the
restraint of a powerful bit, which compels him to throw a great part
of his weight on his haunches . . . There is so great a variety in
the mode adopted by different horses for performing the canter, that
no single description will suffice, nor indeed is it easy . . . to
define any one of them. J. H. Walsh.
2. A rapid or easy passing over.
A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics. Sir J. Stephen.
Can"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cantered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cantering.]
Definition: To move in a canter.
Can"ter, v. t.
Definition: To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a
canter.
Cant"er, n.
1. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses
canting language.
The day when he was a canter and a rebel. Macaulay.
CANT
Cant, n. Etym: [OF., edge, angle, prof. from L. canthus the iron ring
round a carriage wheel, a wheel, Gr. cant the stake or tire of a
wheel. Cf. Canthus, Canton, Cantle.]
1. A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.]
The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she
was placed aloft in a cant. B. Jonson.
2. An outer or external angle.
3. An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or
bevel; a titl. Totten.
4. A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or
change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a
ball a cant.
5. (Coopering)
Definition: A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask. Knight.
6. (Mech.)
Definition: A segment of he rim of a wooden cogwheel. Knight.
7. (Naut.)
Definition: A piece of wood laid upon athe deck of a vessel to support the
bulkneads. Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends
of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.
Cant, v. t. [imp & p. p. Canted; p. pr. & vb. N. Canting.]
1. To incline; to set at an angle; to titl over; to tip upon the
edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
2. To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a
stick of timber; to cant a football.
3. To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or
from the head of a bolt.
Cant, n. Etym: [Prob. from OF. cant, F. chant, singing, in allusion
to the singing or whining tine of voice used by beggars, fr. L.
cantus. See Chant.]
1. An affected, singsong mode of speaking.
2. The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or
occupation. Goldsmith.
The cant of any profession. Dryden.
3. The use of religious phraseology without understanding or
sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt;
hypocrisy.
They shall hear no cant fromF. W. Robertson
4. Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies,
thieves. tramps, or beggars.
Cant, a.
Definition: Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar.
To introduce and multiply cant words in the most ruinous corruption
in any language. Swift.
Cant, v. i.
1. To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, sinsong tone.
2. To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an
affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy;
as, a canting fanatic.
The rankest rogue that ever canted. Beau. & Fl.
3. To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical
termes; to talk with an affectation of learning.
The doctor here, When he discqurseth of dissection, Of vena cava and
of vena porta, The meseræum and the mesentericum, What does he else
but cant. B. Jonson
That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting hanguage, if I may
so call it. Bp. Sanderson.
Cant, n. Etym: [Prob. from OF. cant, equiv. to L. quantum; cf. F.
encan, fr. L. in quantum, i.e. "for how much"]
Definition: A all for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell their
leases by cant." Swift.
Cant, v. t.
Definition: to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.
[Archaic] Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition