Definitions for cants

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cants cant

Spelling: [kant]

IPA: /kænt/

Cants is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in cants (acnst).

Definitions for cants

noun

1. insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
2. the private language of the underworld.
3. the phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.:
4. whining or singsong speech, especially of beggars.
5. a salient angle.
6. a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing.
7. a slanting or tilted position.
8. an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square of cube.
9. an oblique or slanting face of anything.
10. Civil Engineering. bank1 (def 6).
11. a sudden pitch or toss.
12. Also called flitch. a partly trimmed log.

adjective

1. oblique or slanting.

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 talk hypocritically.
2. to speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar; beg.
3. to take or have an inclined position; tilt; turn.

Origin of cants

1495-1505; Latin base cant- in cantus song, canticus singsong, etc., whence Old English cantere singer, cantic song; see chant

Examples for cants

Look how he cants his hat to starboard so's to show them lovelocks.

A high ferry-boat crosses from the west shore and cants into the berth alongside of us.

Now add a round of cants upon each side, with their inner diameter less than the first, so as to cover the iron rim.

Pecksniff, a pronounced hypocrite in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit," and who lies and cants whether he is drunk or sober.

The cants should be closely fitted, and put together with white lead or glue, strongly nailed and bolted.

It runs upward from between his eyes, but cants slightly to one side (like a great many journalists).

Subscribers in the British Provinces will remit twenty cants in addition to subscription.