canter

[can·ter]

To canter is to ride a horse at a speed between a trot and a gallop. When canter is a noun, it is a ride on a horse at that pace and so you can say to a friend, "Come with us for a canter!"

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A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.

Noun
a smooth 3-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop

Verb
ride at a canter; "The men cantered away"

Verb
ride at a cantering pace; "He cantered the horse across the meadow"

Verb
go at a canter, of horses

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

n.
A rapid or easy passing over.

v. i.
To move in a canter.

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

n.
One who cants or whines; a beggar.

n.
One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

Canter

Can"ter , n. [An abbreviation of Caner bury. See Canterbury gallop, under Canterbury.] 1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding. &hand; 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. 2. A rapid or easy passing over.

A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics.

Canter

Can"ter , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cantered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cantering.] To move in a canter.

Canter

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

A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.

To move in a canter.

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

One who cants or whines; a beggar.

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