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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cant \Cant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Canted}; p. pr & vb n. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Canting \Cant"ing\, a. Speaking in a whining tone of voice; using technical or religious terms affectedly; affectedly pious; as a canting rogue; a canting tone. -- {Cant"ing*ly}, adv -- {Cant"ing*ness}, n. {Canting arms}, {Canting heraldry} (Her.), bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Canting \Cant"ing\, n. The use of cant; hypocrisy.
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