Canter

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canter \Cant"er\, n.
     1. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
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     2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one
        who uses canting language.


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              The day when he was a canter and a rebel.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canter \Can"ter\ (k[a^]n"t[~e]r), n. [An abbreviation of
     Canterbury. See Canterbury gallop, under {Canterbury}.]
     1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
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     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.
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     2. A rapid or easy passing over.
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              A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics.
                                                    --Sir J.
                                                    Stephen.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canter \Can"ter\ (k[a^]n"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cantered}
     (k[a^]n"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cantering}.]
     To move in a canter.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canter \Can"ter\, v. t.
     To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at
     a canter.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  canter
       n : a smooth 3-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop [syn: {lope}]
       v 1: ride at a canter; "The men cantered away"
       2: go at a canter, of horses
       3: ride at a cantering pace; "He cantered the horse across the
          meadow"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "canter":
     Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee,
     Tartuffe, affecter, amble, bound, bum, burst, burst of speed,
     canting hypocrite, caracole, curvet, dash, dead run, derelict,
     dissembler, dissimulator, dogtrot, drifter, fair-weather friend,
     false friend, flank speed, flat-out speed, forced draft, formalist,
     fox-trot, frisk, full gallop, gallop, get, git, go on horseback,
     hack, hand gallop, headlong rush, heavy right foot, high lope,
     hightail, hobo, hop, hop along, hotfoot, hypocrite, jog trot, leap,
     lip server, lip worshiper, lope, make tracks, maximum speed,
     mealymouth, mount, open throttle, pace, pharisee, phony, piaffe,
     pietist, pious fraud, plunge, poser, prance, race, ranter,
     religionist, religious hypocrite, ride bareback, ride hard, run,
     rush, sanctimonious fraud, scamper, scud, scurry, scuttle,
     sniveler, snuffler, spiritual humbug, spring, sprint, spurt, step,
     step along, step lively, street arab, summer soldier, take horse,
     tittup, tramp, trip, trot, vag, vagrant, whited sepulcher,
     wide-open speed