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Canter

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.

2. A rapid or easy passing over. A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics. Sir J. Stephen.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: noun (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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To move in a canter.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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