Definitions for Canter

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Canter can·ter

Spelling: [kan-ter]

IPA: /ˈkæn tər/

Canter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in Canter (acenrt).

Definitions for Canter

noun

1. an easy gallop.
2. a person who is much given to the use of cant.
3. a salient angle.
4. a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing.
5. a slanting or tilted position.
6. an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square of cube.
7. an oblique or slanting face of anything.
8. Civil Engineering. bank1 (def 6).
9. a sudden pitch or toss.
10. Also called flitch. a partly trimmed log.

adjective

1. oblique or slanting.
2. hearty; merry.

verb (used with object)

1. to bevel; form an oblique surface upon.
2. to put in an oblique position; tilt; tip.
3. to throw with a sudden jerk.

verb (used without object)

1. to take or have an inclined position; tilt; turn.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to move or ride at a canter.

Origin of Canter

First recorded in 1745-55; short for Canterbury to ride at a pace like that of Canterbury pilgrims

Examples for Canter

canter says the operations in those 10 states will look like this.

Look also, canter says, at what happened in Montana and North Dakota in 2012.

I had intended asking you to join me in a canter over the country.

canter acknowledges that the Democrats talk about “field” in every off-year election.

That's why I have Dutchy take him out on a country road and canter him.

This is where I was a little less impressed by the things canter had to say.

Captain Smith affected a cough, and put his brown mare into a canter.

Caroline, with a movement of impatience, put her horse into a canter.

“This race is going to surprise a lot of people,” says canter.

The party who were to go were soon in the saddle, and they started off at a canter.