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canter

CANTER, v.i. To move as a horse in a moderate gallop, raising the two fore feet nearly at the same time, with a leap or spring.

CANTER, v.t. To ride upon a canter.

CANTER, n.

1. A moderate gallop.

2. One who cants or whines.


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CANTER, v.i. To move as a horse in a moderate gallop, raising the two fore feet nearly at the same time, with a leap or spring.

CANTER, v.t. To ride upon a canter.

CANTER, n.

1. A moderate gallop.

2. One who cants or whines.

CANT'ER, n.

  1. A moderate gallop, a Canterbury gallop.
  2. One who cants or whines.

CANT'ER, v.i. [Arm. cantreal or cantren, to run, to rove or ramble, from tossing or leaping, canting. See Cant.]

To move as a horse in a moderate gallop, raising the two fore feet nearly at the same time, with a leap or spring.


CANT'ER, v.t.

To ride upon a canter.


Can"ter
  1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.

    * 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. To move in a canter.
  3. To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter] to ride (a horse) at a canter.
  4. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
  5. A rapid or easy passing over.

    A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics.
    Sir J. Stephen.

  6. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

    The day when he was a canter and a rebel.
    Macaulay.

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Canter

CANTER, verb intransitive To move as a horse in a moderate gallop, raising the two fore feet nearly at the same time, with a leap or spring.

CANTER, verb transitive To ride upon a canter

CANTER, noun

1. A moderate gallop.

2. One who cants or whines.

CANTERBURY BELL, noun A species of campanula. [See Bell-Flower.]

CANTERBURY TALE, noun A fabulous story; so called from the tales of Chaucer.

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