About The Word Canter
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Canter
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What's The Definition Of Canter?
[n] a smooth 3-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
[v] ride at a canter; "The men cantered away" [v] ride at a cantering pace; "He cantered the horse across the meadow" [v] go at a canter, of horses Synonyms | Synonyms for Canter: lope Related Terms | Find terms related to Canter: 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 | Holy Willie | hop | hop along | hotfoot | hypocrite | jog trot | Joseph Surface | leap | lip server | lip worshiper | lope | make tracks | Mawworm | maximum speed | mealymouth | mount | open throttle | pace | Pecksniff | 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 | Tartuffe | tittup | tramp | trip | trot | vag | vagrant | whited sepulcher | wide-open speed See Also | gait | pace | ride | ride horseback | sit Canter In Webster's Dictionary \Can"ter\, n. [An abbreviation of Caner bury. See
Canterbury gallop, under {Canterbury}.]
1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
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.
2. A rapid or easy passing over.
A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics.
--Sir J.
Stephen.
\Can"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cantered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cantering}.] To move in a canter. \Can"ter\, v. t. To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. \Cant"er\, n. 1. One who cants or whines; a beggar. 2. 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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