单词 | canter |
释义 | cantern.1 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 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 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 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 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). < n.11876n.21608n.31755n.4a1642v.1a1538v.21706 |
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