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adjective
Canted  adj.  
1.
Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window.
Canted column (Arch.), a column polygonal in plan.
2.
Inclined at an angle to something else; tipped; sloping.


verb
Cant  v. t.  (past & past part. canted; pres. part. canting)  
1.
To incline; to set at an angle; to tilt over; to tip upon the edge; as, to cant a cask; to cant a ship.
2.
To give a sudden turn or new direction to; as, to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football.
3.
To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.


Cant  v. t.  To sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction. (Archaic)


Cant  v. i.  
1.
To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone.
2.
To make whining pretensions to goodness; to talk with an affectation of religion, philanthropy, etc.; to practice hypocrisy; as, a canting fanatic. "The rankest rogue that ever canted."
3.
To use pretentious language, barbarous jargon, or technical terms; to talk with an affectation of learning. "The doctor here, When he discourseth of dissection, Of vena cava and of vena porta, The meseraeum and the mesentericum, What does he else but cant." "That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language, if I may so call it."





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"Canted" Quotes from Famous Books



... rest. Whereas, they had one and all a peculiarly unhealthy effect upon Andy, this newcomer was a cheery fellow, with an eye as clear as crystal, and color in his tanned cheeks. He had one of those long faces which invariably imply shrewdness, and he canted his head to one side while he watched Andy. "You're him that put the pinto in the corral, I ...
— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand
... "Deviation Curves" are all very well in their way, but a seamanlike job aloft, on a bright morning, is something stirring to begin the day with. A clear head to find one's way, and a sharp hand to unbend the gear and get the yard canted for lowering; then, with a glance at the fore (where fumblers are in difficulties with their lifts), the prideful hail to the deck, "All clear, ...
— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone
... single curse for all the criticism that ever was canted or decanted, or recanted. Neither does the world. The world takes a poet as it finds him, and seats him above or below the salt. The world is as obstinate as a million mules, and will not turn its head on one side or another for ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... morning. So, after a good night's rest, we cast loose from the wharf, and, with a little assistance from the same useful tug that brought us in, got fairly out to sea. All sail was set to a strong, steady north-wester, and with yards canted the least bit in the world on the port tack, so that every stitch was drawing, we began our long easterly stretch to the Horn, homeward ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... one and all a peculiarly unhealthy effect upon Andy, this newcomer was a cheery fellow, with an eye as clear as crystal, and color in his tanned cheeks. He had one of those long faces which invariably imply shrewdness, and he canted his head to one side while he watched Andy. "You're him that put the pinto in the corral, I ...
— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand


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