Definitions for cantles

cantles can·tle

Spelling: [kan-tl]
IPA: /ˈkæn tl/

Cantles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in cantles (acelnst).

Definitions for cantles

noun

  1. the hind part of a saddle, usually curved upward.
  2. a corner; piece; portion:

Origin of cantles

1275-1325; Middle English cantel (Anglo-French) Medieval Latin cantellus, equivalent to Latin cant(us) (see cant2) + -ellus diminutive suffix

Examples for cantles

If you were shorter, you might have to spring from your foot before you could touch the cantle.

They saw that he had a roll of blankets at the cantle of his saddle, and saddle-bags at its sides.

He recognized a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle.

The right hand that had been clinging to the cantle was launched out.

Her books she had strapped to the saddle-horn; there was a yellow slicker at the cantle.

This was to Joeboy, who was walking with one hand on the cantle of my saddle.

She looked back, turning with a hand on the cantle of her saddle.

The hand that rested a moment on the cantle as he rose grasped a “navy-six.”

He threw his leg over the cantle of the saddle and stepped softly to the ground.

A Mexican saddle with its high pommel and cantle, was fascinating after an English one.

Word Value for cantles
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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