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▪ I. cantle, n.|ˈkænt(ə)l|
Forms: 4–9 cantel, 5–7 cantell, 6– cantle; also 4–5 kantel, -tell, 5 cantelle, -tylle, chantel, 6 cantil, 7 kantle.
[a. ONF. cantel (in Central OF. chantel, now chanteau) = Pr. cantel, med.L. cantell-us, dim. of cant, canto, cantus corner. (Du. kant has, among other senses, that of ‘piece’ or ‘cantle’ of bread.)]
†1. A nook or corner; a corner-piece. Obs.
c1350Magdalena 383 in Altengl. Leg. (Horstmann) Opon þe heiȝe hurst in a grene cantel. a1400Morte Arth. 4232 The kyng with Calaburne knyghtly hym strykes The cantelle of þe clere schelde he kerfes in sondyre. c1420Anturs of Arth. xli, He keruet of the cantel, that couurt the knyȝte, Thro his shild and his shildur. 1575in Laneham's Let. (1871) 42 A rich skarlet mantell, With a-leauen kings beards bordred aboout..and yet in a cantell lz leaft a place, the twelth to make oout. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. v. (1628) 150 A nooke or corner being in our ancient language called a kant, or cantell.
†b. A projecting corner or angle of land. Obs.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 86 A cantel of Italye neereth. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 87 Constrained to leave the sayd plaine, save a cantell that was toward the sea. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 601 It runneth far into the sea with a long cantle or Promontory. 1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 613 A road to be made..crosse a cantell of land.
†2. A corner or other portion cut or sliced off; a shiver, a slice. Obs.
c1400Melayne 1032 Thay hewe theire scheldes to thaire handis In cantells hyngand by. c1430Syr Gener. 5934 Of his sheld floȝ of a grete cantel. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xvi, But the stroke of kynge Ban felle doune and carfe a cantel of the sheld. 1530Palsgr. 202/2 Cantell or shyver, chanteau. 1600Fairfax Tasso vi. xlviii. 103 Their armours forged were of metalle fraile, On euery side, thereof huge cantels flies. 1627Drayton Agincourt (1631) 58 The English..cut into Cantles all that them withstood.
3. A section, or segment, cut out of anything.
c1440Promp. Parv. 60 Cantel, of what euer hyt be, quadra, minutal. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Ep. (1577) 12 The vniuersall earth, which..by the ambition of men hath bene diuided into cantels. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. i, See, how this Riuer..cuts me from the best of all my Lands, A huge halfe Moone, a monstrous Cantle out. 1653H. Cogan Diod. Sic. 119 Those great cantles of the Marble, which..they have hewed and cut off from the Quarry. 1823Lamb Last Ess. Elia, Superan. Man 441 The huge cantle which it used to seem to cut out of the holiday. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. i. 8 It has always cut an awkward cantle out of my property.
b. A thick slice or ‘cut’ of bread, cheese, meat, or the like.
c1475Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 772 Hec quadra, a cantel of brede. a1528Skelton Elynour Rum. 429 A cantell of Essex chese. 1552Huloet, Cantel or shief of bread, minutal. 1627Feltham Low-Countr. (1677) 46 A Cantle of green Cheese. 1737Ozell Rabelais ii. xxx, At the price of a cantle of bread. 1804Duncumb Herefords. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Cantle, a piece of bread or cheese.
†c. A segment of a circle or sphere. Obs.
1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. Def., If that part be separate from the rest of the circle..then ar both partes called cantelles. Ibid. Halfe globys and canteles of a globe. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. x. 6 The greater Cantle of the world is lost With very ignorance.
4. A part, a portion (viewed as separate).
c1315Shoreham 33 Al i-hol Mot be thy schryfte, brother; Naȝt tharof a kantel to a prest And a kantel to another. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2150 Nature hath nat take his bygynnyng Of no partye ne cantel of a thing, But of a thing that parfyt is and stable. 1552Let. in Edw. VI's Lit. Rem. (1858) II. 418 That you might have soche a cantell of recreation. 1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. Ep. Ded., Perusing a cantell or parcel of the Irish historie that heere issueth. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xxxi. 401 Time is as it were a portion or cantle of eternity. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxxxix. 116 A huge cantle of the folly.
5. The protuberant part at the back of a saddle; the hind-bow.
1592Greene Art Conny catch. ii. 5 His sadle is made without any tree, yet hath it cantle and bolsters. 1652Sir C. Cotterell Cassandra ii. ii. (1676) 138 Nailed it to the cantle of his Saddle. 1859Art Taming Horses viii. 120 Young men should learn to leap into the saddle by placing both hands on the cantle, as the horse moves.
b. cantle bar: a bar in the saddle of a camel, in place of the cantle.
1859W. Gregory Egypt I. 50 As the dromedary rises..you..are..brought up by the cantle-bar just in your lower vertebræ
†6. The crown of the head. Sc. [perh. from Du. kanteel a battlement, used fig. (Jam.).]
1822Scott Nigel ii, ‘My cantle will stand a clour wad bring a stot down.’ 1847–78Halliwell, Cantle, the head. Northumb. Mod. To crack his cantle for him.
7. dial. (See quot.)
1811Willan W. Riding Yorksh. Gloss, Cantles, the legs, chiefly in young animals. 1847–78Halliwell, Cantle, the leg of an animal. North.
8. ? (Cf. scantling.)
1536MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., To y⊇ sawers for sawyng ko[n]tyll bord. 1615Ibid. Payd for saing of contellbordes and quarters. 1573in L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 110 A cantel of a chest board. 1693J. Edwards Bks. O. & N. Test. 428 Cantle [in Heraldry] quasi Scantling.
9. Comb. † cantle-meal, piecemeal; cantle-piece, a side piece of the head of a cask; cf. cant-piece (cant n.1 4), and F. chanteau; cantle-wise adv., by cantles, in manner of a cantle (cf. cantle v.1 3). See also cantel-cope.
c1479Caxton Bk. Curtasye (1841) 409 (Mätz.) Men gete it now by *cantelmele.
1699J. Dickenson Jrnl. Trav. 46 The *Cantle-pieces of Sugar-Hogsheads.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, an. 12 (R.) His garment was a chemew of clothe of siluer, culpond with clothe of golde, of damaske *cantell wise.
▪ II. † ˈcantle, v.1 Obs.
Also 6 cantel, kantel.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To cut into quarters or portions, divide.
1607Dekker Wh. of Babylon i. i. Wks. 1873 II. 193 This vast Globe Terrestriall should be cantled, And almost three parts ours. 1693Dryden Juvenal's Sat., For four times talking, if one piece thou take, That must be cantled, and the judge go snack.
2. to cantle out: to portion out, cut out.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xcii. 570 Men are alwayes giuen to cantle out the poore folkes morsels as short as can be. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 64 Their shape being nothing but their bulk so cantled out.
3. To piece together cantles of cloth.
1548Hall Chron. (1809) 609 The garment was large & plited verie thicke & canteled of very good intaile. 1568Grafton Chron. Hen. VIII, an. 6 Their apparell and bardes were cloth of golde, cloth of siluer, and crymsyn velvet kanteled together all in one sute.
▪ III. † ˈcantle, v.2 Obs. rare.
= scantle, to measure by a standard.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 80 Thyrœus..likely dooth Cantle all Exorcists by himselfe. |