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单词 canter
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cantern.1

Brit. /ˈkantə/, U.S. /ˈkæntər/
Etymology: < cant v.2 + -er suffix1. Compare also cant n.1 6.
1.
a. One who cants, or tilts.
Thesaurus »
b. In a sawmill, a machine placed over the carriage and used to cant or roll over the log on the carriage in making the first cuts; a canting-machine ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).
2. (See quot. 1876.)
ΚΠ
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Canter, a timber-carrier; one who brings ‘bauks’ or tree-trunks from the woods to the ship-yards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

cantern.2

Brit. /ˈkantə/, U.S. /ˈkæntər/
Etymology: < cant v.3 + -er suffix1.
1. One who uses the ‘cant’ of thieves, etc.; one of the ‘canting crew’; a rogue, vagabond. archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun]
harlot?c1225
truantc1290
shreward1297
boyc1300
lidderon13..
cokinc1330
pautenerc1330
bribera1387
bricouna1400
losarda1400
rascal?a1400
custronc1400
knapea1450
sloven?a1475
limmerc1485
knavatec1506
smaik?1507
smy?1507
koken?a1513
swinger1513
Cock Lorel?1518
pedlar's French1530
varletc1540
losthope?c1550
makeshift1554
wild rogue1567
miligant1568
rogue1568
crack-halter1573
rascallion1582
schelm1584
scoundrel1589
scaba1592
bezonian1592
slave1592
rampallion1593
Scanderbeg1601
roly-poly1602
canter1608
cantler1611
gue1612
fraudsman1613
Cathayana1616
crack-hempa1616
foiterer1616
tilt1620
picaro1622
picaroon1629
sheepmanc1640
rapscallion1648
scaramouch1677
fripon1691
trickster1711
shake-bag1794
sinner1809
cad1838
badmash1843
scattermouch1892
jazzbo1914
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal
harlot?c1225
knavec1275
truantc1290
shreward1297
boinarda1300
boyc1300
lidderon13..
cokinc1330
pautenerc1330
bribera1387
bricouna1400
losarda1400
rascal?a1400
knapea1450
lotterela1450
limmerc1485
Tutivillus1498
knavatec1506
smy?1507
koken?a1513
swinger1513
Cock Lorel?1518
pedlar's French1530
cust1535
rabiator1535
varletc1540
Jack1548
kern1556
wild rogue1567
miligant1568
rogue1568
tutiviller1568
rascallion1582
schelm1584
scoundrel1589
rampallion1593
Scanderbeg1601
scroyle1602
canter1608
cantler1611
skelm1611
gue1612
Cathayana1616
foiterer1616
tilt1620
picaro1622
picaroon1629
sheepmanc1640
rapscallion1648
marrow1656
Algerine1671
scaramouch1677
fripon1691
shake-bag1794
badling1825
tiger1827
two-for-his-heels1837
ral1846
skeezicks1850
nut1882
gun1890
scattermouch1892
tug1896
natkhat1901
jazzbo1914
scutter1940
bar steward1945
hoor1965
1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. B4 Stay and heare a Canter in his owne Language, making Rithmes.
1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all sig. Ejv Thus haue I runne ouer the Canter's Dictionary.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 239/1 [They] gaue all their mony to the mendicanting Canters.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 131 Astrologers, Soothsayers, Canters, Gypsies, Juglers.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 100 A Filcher my Brother, A Canter my Uncle.
1865 tr. V. Hugo Hunchback of Notre Dame ii. vi. 76 Four or five canters..were quarrelling.
2. A talker of professional or religious cant; in 17th cent. a nickname of the Puritans.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person
Pharisee1539
card gospeller1550
lip-gospeller?1556
saint1563
table-gospeller1570
separatist1620
Christera1650
canter1652
high-liver1715
cant1725
pietist1767
devil dodger1791
goody1816
creeping Jesusc1818
Mawworm1825
goody-two-shoes1843
Pecksniff1844
goody-goody1872
goody-good1879
lip-Christian1882
plaster saint1890
holy Willie1916
1652 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 292 On Whit-Sunday, I went to the church..and heard one of the canters.
1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 42 The seditious Canter.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 731 The Schlegels are the great critical canters of modern Europe.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 213 The days when he [Lauderdale] was a canter and a rebel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

cantern.3

Brit. /ˈkantə/, U.S. /ˈkæntər/
Etymology: compare canter v.2
1.
a. A Canterbury gallop; an easy gallop. ‘The exertion is much less, the spring less distant, and the feet come to the ground in more regular succession,’ than in the gallop proper (Youatt).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > canter
false gallopc1515
hand-gallop1624
Canterbury1631
tittup1691
canter1755
hand canter1769
Canterbury gallop1773
tittuping1780
cantering1828
1755 Connoisseur No. 69 She never ventured beyond a canter or a hand-gallop.
1773 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 4) at Canterbury gallop The hand gallop of an ambling horse, commonly called a canter.
1831 I. K. Brunel Treat. Draught in W. Youatt Horse 413 The canter is to the gallop very much what the walk is to the trot.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend v. 238 This canter over hill and glade.
b. to win in a canter: to distance all the other horses in a race so much that galloping is unnecessary at the end; figurative to come off victor with the greatest ease.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win > win easily
to win in a canter1853
to win in a walk1858
romp1869
to walk over (the course)1903
to walk home1932
to coast home1934
walk1937
to romp it1967
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > engage in horse racing [verb (intransitive)] > win
to win (also lose, etc.) by a head1743
(to win or lose) by a neck1791
to win in a canter1853
to win cleverly1881
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. i. xii. 77 Squire..wins the game in a canter.
1874 Sat. Rev. Aug. 180 Hermitage won in a common canter.
2. figurative (cf. run n.2 1a, scamper n.1)
ΚΠ
1862 J. L. Motley Let. 26 Feb. in Corr. (1889) II. iii. 67 He ever and anon relieves his prose jog-trot by breaking into a canter of poetry.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. s.v. (citing Sir J. Stephens) A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics of the day.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 103 Ma was talking then at her usual canter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cantern.4

Etymology: ? < Spanish cantera.
Obsolete. rare.
A kind of Spanish fishing-boat.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > other types of fishing vessel
spindlers-boat1243
manfare1326
stall boat1328
dogger1338
hackboat1344
coble1493
peter-boat1540
monger1558
trimboat1558
shotter1580
crab-skuit1614
fly-boat1614
cantera1642
dogger-boat1646
cag1666
yawl1670
barca-longa1681
hogboat1784
fishing-smack1785
hooker1801
hatch-boat1828
pinkie1840
fishing-bark1841
pookhaun1851
garookuh1855
jigger1860
fisher-bark1862
fisher-keel1870
Norwegian1872
scaf1877
mule coble1883
mule1884
Zulu1884
novy1885
tosher1885
skipjack1887
fleeter1888
fishing-float1893
rodney1895
mutton-ham boat1899
nobby1899
sinagot1927
sport fisherman1937
sport fisher1940
ski-boat1964
belly boat1976
a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) vi. 532/1 There are..employ'd out of Spain..Vessels call'd Canters, upon that Fishing.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Cantera, a Spanish fishing-boat.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

canterv.1

Obsolete.
? To chant, to intone.
Π
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 91 Thynke yf saynt augustyn jerome or ambrose hard our curyouse dyscantyng & conteryng in churchys what they wold say.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

canterv.2

Brit. /ˈkantə/, U.S. /ˈkæntər/
Etymology: Shortened < canterbury v.
1. intransitive. Of a horse, etc.: To move in a moderate gallop, raising the two fore-feet nearly at the same time with a leap or spring.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > canter
canter1706
1706 London Gaz. No. 4247/4 Trots, Paces, and Canters very fine.
1804 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 193 The horse, on cantering down a..hill, came on his head.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi x. 212 The zebras..canter gracefully away.
2. Of the rider.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride rapidly > at a canter
canterbury1673
canter1768
tittup1852
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 117 La Fleur..canter'd away..as..perpendicular as a prince.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV ciii. 122 I canter by the spot each afternoon.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 164 He was cantering through the park.
3. transferred. To run or move as in a canter; to move nimbly or briskly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > run
yernc900
runOE
rasec1275
canter1765
pelt1831
shin1838
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxxi. 131 'Tis..any thing, which a man makes a shift to get a stride on, to canter it away from the cares and solicitudes of life.
c1825 Houlston Tracts II. No. 38. 11 Away she canters, and tosses over and tries on before the looking-glass every article of dress.
4. transitive. To make (a horse) go at a canter, to ride at a canter. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > ride (a horse) rapidly > ride (a horse) at a canter
canter1845
1845 W. M. Thackeray Legends of Rhine in G. Cruikshank's Table-bk. 243 The knight gracefully cantering an elegant cream-coloured Arabian.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. viii. vii. 80 The islander catches..the first [pony] that comes to hand, puts on the halter, canters it his journey, and lets it go.
1930 V. Woolf Diary 20 Feb. (1953) 156 I must canter my wits if I can.
5. transferred. To impart a cantering motion to.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > with cantering motion
canter1821
1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 322 She would not be cantered in a swing set up in a kitchen-garden, because, as she whispered, the potatoes had eyes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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