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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Canter \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Canter \Can"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cantered}; p. pr & vb n. {Cantering}.] To move in a canter. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Canter \Can"ter\, v. t. To cause as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: canter n : an 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"
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