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noun

Canter n.

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.

A rapid or easy passing over. "A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics."

Canter n.

One who cants or whines; a beggar.

One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. "The day when he was a canter and a rebel."

verb

Canter v. t. To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

Canter v. i. (past & past part. cantered; pres. part. cantering) To move in a canter.

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Etymology of 'Canter'

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"Canter" Quotes from Famous Books

... art all the world to me, love, Thou art everything in one, From my early cup of tea, love, To my kidney underdone; From my canter in the Row, love, To my invitation lunch— From my quiet country blow, love, To my ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 • Various

... drove, and now I did perceive a change. A great grass-grown park-wall, overtopped with mighty trees; but still on and on we came at a canter that seemed almost a gallop. The old grey park-wall flanking us at one side, and a pretty pastoral hedgerow of ash-trees, irregularly on ...

— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

... another trooper patrolled; and when at length he and Lannis perceived each other and exchanged signals, the latter wheeled his horse and retraced his route at an easy canter, satisfied that Quintana had not yet ...

— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers

... Saturday afternoon in early November, Jane Allen ran up the steps of Madison Hall, her face radiant. Attired in riding clothes, she had just come from the stable, where she had left Firefly after a long canter across country. ...

— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft

... raising my head more openly, I fixed my eyes upon her with polite gravity, but persistent steadiness. She blushed; seeing which, I bowed. She returned me a slight inclination of the head, and moving off at a canter, she disappeared under the vault of the old church. I thus remained master of the field, keenly relishing the triumph of fascination I had just obtained over that little person, whom there certainly was considerable merit in ...

— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet

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