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Definition of Canters
Canter 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.
Canter Canter Can"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cantered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Cantering.]
To move in a canter.
Canter Canter Can"ter, v. t.
To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at
a canter.
Canter 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.
