cantlen.

/ˈkant(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English–1800s cantel, Middle English–1600s cantell, 1500s– cantle; also Middle English kantel, kantell, Middle English cantelle, cantylle, chantel, 1500s cantil, 1600s kantle.

Etymology: < Old Northern French cantel (in Central Old French chantel, now chanteau) = Provençal cantel, medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of cant, canto, cantus corner. (Dutch kant has, among other senses, that of ‘piece’ or ‘cantle’ of bread.)

†1.

a. A nook or corner; a corner-piece. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner

hirnec897

corner1340

cantlec1350

anglea1398

nooka1400

cornelc1420

coin1545

quoin1838

quain1868

c1350 Magdalena 383 in Altengl. Leg. (Horstmann) Opon þe heiȝe hurst in a grene cantel.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 4232 The kyng with Calaburne knyghtly hym strykes The cantelle of þe clere schelde he kerfes in sondyre.

c1420 Anturs of Arth. xli He keruet of the cantel, that couurt the knyȝte, Thro his shild and his shildur.

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 53 A rich skarlet mantell, With a leauen kings beards bordred about..and yet in a cantell lz left a place the twelth to make oout.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence v. 150 A nook or corner beeing in our ancient language called a kant or cantel.

†b. A projecting corner or angle of land. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > triangle

haleOE

nookc1450

cantle1524

gusset1650

heater-piece1859

1524 R. Copland tr. J. de Bourbon Syege Cyte of Rodes in Begynnynge Ordre Knyghtes Hospytallers sig. Dij^v Constrayned to leue the sayd playne, sauf a cantell y^t was towarde y^t see.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 59 A cantel of Italye neereth.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 601 It runneth far into the sea with a long cantle or Promontory.

1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a piece cut off > a slice

cantlec1400

leachc1440

slicea1475

tailye?a1500

tranchec1500

trench1558

slive1577

collop1579

gigot?1611

slivinga1825

c1400 Melayne 1032 Thay hewe theire scheldes to thaire handis In cantells hyngand by.

c1430 Syr Gener. 5934 Of his sheld floȝ of a grete cantel.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xvi But the stroke of kynge Ban felle doune and carfe a cantel of the sheld.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 202/2 Cantell or shyver, chanteau.

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vi. xlviii. 103 Their armours forged were of metalle fraile, On euery side, thereof huge cantels flies.

1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 41 The English..cut into Cantels all that them withstood.

a. A section, or segment, cut out of anything.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > cut out of anything

cantlec1440

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 60 Cantel, of what euer hyt be, quadra, minutal.

1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 7^v The vniuersall earth, which..by the ambicion of men hath bene diuided into Cantles.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. i. 97 See, how this Riuer..cuts me from the best of all my Land, A huge halfe Moone, a monstrous Cantle [1598 scantle] out.

1653 H. Cogan tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. 119 Those great cantles of the Marble, which..they have hewed and cut off from the Quarry.

1833 C. Lamb Superannuated Man in Last Ess. Elia 103 The huge cantle which it used to seem to cut out of the holyday.

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > slice or piece of foodstuff > thick or large

stulla1400

cantle?a1500

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 772 Hec quadra, a cantel of brede.

a1528 J. Skelton Elynour Rummyng 429 A cantell of Essex chese.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cantel or shief of bread, minutal.

1652 O. Felltham Char. Low-Countries 10 A Cantle of Green Cheese.

1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. II. xxx. 231 At the Price of a Cantle of Bread.

1804 J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford (E.D.S.) Gloss. Cantle, a piece of bread or cheese.

†c. A segment of a circle or sphere. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > of anything circular or spherical

cantle1551

segment1646

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Def. If that part be separate from the rest of the circle..then ar both partes called cantelles.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Def. Halfe globys and canteles of a globe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. x. 6 The greater Cantle of the world, is lost With very ignorance.

4. A part, a portion (viewed as separate).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a part viewed as separate

piecec1300

cantlec1315

parcela1382

c1315 Shoreham 33 Al i-hol Mot be thy schryfte, brother; Naȝt tharof a kantel to a prest And a kantel to another.

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2144 Nature hath nat taken his bigynnyng Of no partie or of cantel of a thyng But of a thyng. that perfit is and stable.

1552 Let. in J. G. Nichols Literary Remains Edward VI (1858) II. 418 That you might have soche a cantell of recreation.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 77/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Perusing a cantell or parcel of the Irish Historie, that heere ensueth.

1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxxi. 401 Time is as it were a portion or cantle of eternity.

1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxix. 116 A huge cantle of the folly.

a. The protuberant part at the back of a saddle; the hind-bow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle

saddle-boweOE

arsonc1300

saddle skirt1361

saddle-tree1364

skirtc1400

saddle panel1465

stock-tree1470

stock1497

pommela1500

tree1535

pillion cloth1540

port1548

saddle stock1548

pilch1552

bolster1591

cantle1591

shank-pilliona1599

pillowc1600

pad1604

crutch1607

sivet1607

saddle crutcha1614

saddle eaves1663

saddle tore1681

burr1688

head1688

narve1688

saddle seat1688

sidebar1688

torea1694

quarter1735

bands of a saddle1753

witherband1764

withers1764

peak1775

pillion-stick1784

boot-housing1792

saddle flap1798

saddle lap1803

fork1833

flap1849

horn1849

skirting1852

hunting-horn1854

head-plate1855

saddle horn1856

cantle bar1859

leaping-horn1859

straining1871

stirrup-bar1875

straining-leather1875

spring tree1877

leaping-head1881

officer-tree1894

monkey1911

monkey-strap1915

thigh roll1963

straining-web-

1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. A2 His saddle is made without any tree, yet hath it cantle & boulsters.

1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) ii. ii. 138 Nailed it to the cantle of his Saddle.

1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) viii. 120 Young men should learn to leap into the saddle by placing both hands on the cantle, as the horse moves.

1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy ii. 15 The indispensable slicker [waterproof]..securely tied to our cantle strings.

1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xxv. 284 The cantle of the saddle, striking the barrel of the Winchester, tore the weapon from its owner's hands.

b. cantle bar n. a bar in the saddle of a camel, in place of the cantle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle

saddle-boweOE

arsonc1300

saddle skirt1361

saddle-tree1364

skirtc1400

saddle panel1465

stock-tree1470

stock1497

pommela1500

tree1535

pillion cloth1540

port1548

saddle stock1548

pilch1552

bolster1591

cantle1591

shank-pilliona1599

pillowc1600

pad1604

crutch1607

sivet1607

saddle crutcha1614

saddle eaves1663

saddle tore1681

burr1688

head1688

narve1688

saddle seat1688

sidebar1688

torea1694

quarter1735

bands of a saddle1753

witherband1764

withers1764

peak1775

pillion-stick1784

boot-housing1792

saddle flap1798

saddle lap1803

fork1833

flap1849

horn1849

skirting1852

hunting-horn1854

head-plate1855

saddle horn1856

cantle bar1859

leaping-horn1859

straining1871

stirrup-bar1875

straining-leather1875

spring tree1877

leaping-head1881

officer-tree1894

monkey1911

monkey-strap1915

thigh roll1963

straining-web-

1859 W. H. 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. Scottish. [perhaps < Dutch kanteel a battlement, used figuratively(Jamieson).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > top of head > [noun]

nolleOE

mouldOE

shodec1000

topa1225

patea1325

polla1325

hattrelc1330

skullc1380

foretop1382

pommelc1385

summita1425

sconce1567

vertex1634

cantle1822

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. ii. 47 My cantle will stand a clour wad bring a stot down.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Cantle, the head. Northumb.

1888 N.E.D. at Cantle Mod. To crack his cantle for him.

7. dialect. (See quot.)

ΚΠ

1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. Gloss Cantles, the legs, chiefly in young animals.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Cantle, the leg of an animal. North.

8. ? (Cf. scantling n.)

ΚΠ

1536 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) To y^e sawers for sawyng ko[n]tyll bord.

1573 in L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 110 A cantel of a chest board.

1615 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Payd for saing of contellbordes and quarters.

1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. Add. 428 Cantle (in Heraldry) quasi Scantling.

Compounds

† cantle-meal n. Obsolete piecemeal.

ΚΠ

1477–8 Bk. of Curtesye (Caxton) (1882) l. 409 Men gete it now by cantelmele.

cantle-piece n. a side piece of the head of a cask; cf. cant-piece at cant n.¹ 4a, and French chanteau.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > end > one of side-pieces of

cant1611

cantle-piece1699

1699 J. Dickenson Jrnl. Trav. 46 The Cantle-pieces of Sugar-Hogsheads.

cantle-wise adv. by cantles, in manner of a cantle (cf. cantle v.¹ 3). See also cantel-cape n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [adverb]

cantle-wise1548

stitch by stitch1566

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxvij His garment was a chemew, of clothe of siluer, culpond with clothe of golde, of damaske cantell wise.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	cantle
释义	cantlen. /ˈkant(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English–1800s cantel, Middle English–1600s cantell, 1500s– cantle; also Middle English kantel, kantell, Middle English cantelle, cantylle, chantel, 1500s cantil, 1600s kantle. Etymology: < Old Northern French cantel (in Central Old French chantel, now chanteau) = Provençal cantel, medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of cant, canto, cantus corner. (Dutch kant has, among other senses, that of ‘piece’ or ‘cantle’ of bread.) †1. a. A nook or corner; a corner-piece. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner hirnec897 corner1340 cantlec1350 anglea1398 nooka1400 cornelc1420 coin1545 quoin1838 quain1868 c1350 Magdalena 383 in Altengl. Leg. (Horstmann) Opon þe heiȝe hurst in a grene cantel. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 4232 The kyng with Calaburne knyghtly hym strykes The cantelle of þe clere schelde he kerfes in sondyre. c1420 Anturs of Arth. xli He keruet of the cantel, that couurt the knyȝte, Thro his shild and his shildur. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 53 A rich skarlet mantell, With a leauen kings beards bordred about..and yet in a cantell lz left a place the twelth to make oout. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence v. 150 A nook or corner beeing in our ancient language called a kant or cantel. †b. A projecting corner or angle of land. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > triangle haleOE nookc1450 cantle1524 gusset1650 heater-piece1859 1524 R. Copland tr. J. de Bourbon Syege Cyte of Rodes in Begynnynge Ordre Knyghtes Hospytallers sig. Dij^v Constrayned to leue the sayd playne, sauf a cantell y^t was towarde y^t see. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 59 A cantel of Italye neereth. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 601 It runneth far into the sea with a long cantle or Promontory. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a piece cut off > a slice cantlec1400 leachc1440 slicea1475 tailye?a1500 tranchec1500 trench1558 slive1577 collop1579 gigot?1611 slivinga1825 c1400 Melayne 1032 Thay hewe theire scheldes to thaire handis In cantells hyngand by. c1430 Syr Gener. 5934 Of his sheld floȝ of a grete cantel. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xvi But the stroke of kynge Ban felle doune and carfe a cantel of the sheld. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 202/2 Cantell or shyver, chanteau. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vi. xlviii. 103 Their armours forged were of metalle fraile, On euery side, thereof huge cantels flies. 1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 41 The English..cut into Cantels all that them withstood. 3. a. A section, or segment, cut out of anything. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > cut out of anything cantlec1440 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 60 Cantel, of what euer hyt be, quadra, minutal. 1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 7^v The vniuersall earth, which..by the ambicion of men hath bene diuided into Cantles. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. i. 97 See, how this Riuer..cuts me from the best of all my Land, A huge halfe Moone, a monstrous Cantle [1598 scantle] out. 1653 H. Cogan tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. 119 Those great cantles of the Marble, which..they have hewed and cut off from the Quarry. 1833 C. Lamb Superannuated Man in Last Ess. Elia 103 The huge cantle which it used to seem to cut out of the holyday. 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > slice or piece of foodstuff > thick or large stulla1400 cantle?a1500 ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 772 Hec quadra, a cantel of brede. a1528 J. Skelton Elynour Rummyng 429 A cantell of Essex chese. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cantel or shief of bread, minutal. 1652 O. Felltham Char. Low-Countries 10 A Cantle of Green Cheese. 1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. II. xxx. 231 At the Price of a Cantle of Bread. 1804 J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford (E.D.S.) Gloss. Cantle, a piece of bread or cheese. †c. A segment of a circle or sphere. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > of anything circular or spherical cantle1551 segment1646 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Def. If that part be separate from the rest of the circle..then ar both partes called cantelles. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Def. Halfe globys and canteles of a globe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. x. 6 The greater Cantle of the world, is lost With very ignorance. View more context for this quotation 4. A part, a portion (viewed as separate). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a part viewed as separate piecec1300 cantlec1315 parcela1382 c1315 Shoreham 33 Al i-hol Mot be thy schryfte, brother; Naȝt tharof a kantel to a prest And a kantel to another. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2144 Nature hath nat taken his bigynnyng Of no partie or of cantel of a thyng But of a thyng. that perfit is and stable. 1552 Let. in J. G. Nichols Literary Remains Edward VI (1858) II. 418 That you might have soche a cantell of recreation. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 77/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Perusing a cantell or parcel of the Irish Historie, that heere ensueth. 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxxi. 401 Time is as it were a portion or cantle of eternity. 1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxix. 116 A huge cantle of the folly. 5. a. The protuberant part at the back of a saddle; the hind-bow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. A2 His saddle is made without any tree, yet hath it cantle & boulsters. 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) ii. ii. 138 Nailed it to the cantle of his Saddle. 1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) viii. 120 Young men should learn to leap into the saddle by placing both hands on the cantle, as the horse moves. 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy ii. 15 The indispensable slicker [waterproof]..securely tied to our cantle strings. 1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xxv. 284 The cantle of the saddle, striking the barrel of the Winchester, tore the weapon from its owner's hands. b. cantle bar n. a bar in the saddle of a camel, in place of the cantle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1859 W. H. 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. Scottish. [perhaps < Dutch kanteel a battlement, used figuratively(Jamieson).] ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > top of head > [noun] nolleOE mouldOE shodec1000 topa1225 patea1325 polla1325 hattrelc1330 skullc1380 foretop1382 pommelc1385 summita1425 sconce1567 vertex1634 cantle1822 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. ii. 47 My cantle will stand a clour wad bring a stot down. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Cantle, the head. Northumb. 1888 N.E.D. at Cantle Mod. To crack his cantle for him. 7. dialect. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. Gloss Cantles, the legs, chiefly in young animals. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Cantle, the leg of an animal. North. 8. ? (Cf. scantling n.) ΚΠ 1536 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) To y^e sawers for sawyng ko[n]tyll bord. 1573 in L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 110 A cantel of a chest board. 1615 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Payd for saing of contellbordes and quarters. 1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. Add. 428 Cantle (in Heraldry) quasi Scantling. Compounds † cantle-meal n. Obsolete piecemeal. ΚΠ 1477–8 Bk. of Curtesye (Caxton) (1882) l. 409 Men gete it now by cantelmele. cantle-piece n. a side piece of the head of a cask; cf. cant-piece at cant n.¹ 4a, and French chanteau. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > end > one of side-pieces of cant1611 cantle-piece1699 1699 J. Dickenson Jrnl. Trav. 46 The Cantle-pieces of Sugar-Hogsheads. cantle-wise adv. by cantles, in manner of a cantle (cf. cantle v.¹ 3). See also cantel-cape n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [adverb] cantle-wise1548 stitch by stitch1566 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxvij His garment was a chemew, of clothe of siluer, culpond with clothe of golde, of damaske cantell wise. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † cantlev.¹ Forms: Also 1500s cantel, kantel. Etymology: < cantle n. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To cut into quarters or portions, divide. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into parcels or portions parcel1416 cantc1440 to cantle out1583 share1595 parcellize1606 cantle1607 cantonize1608 partition1740 parcellate1927 1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. A4 This vast Globe Terrestriall should be cantled, And almost three parts ours. 1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 135 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. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into parcels or portions parcel1416 cantc1440 to cantle out1583 share1595 parcellize1606 cantle1607 cantonize1608 partition1740 parcellate1927 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xcii. 570 Men are alwayes giuen to cantle out the poore folkes morsels as short as can be. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 64 Their shape being nothing but their bulk so cantled out. 3. To piece together cantles of cloth. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > sew together > join pieces of cloth pane1466 cantle1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxvj The garment was large, and plited verie thicke, and canteled of very good intaile. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1012 Their apparell and bardes were cloth of golde, cloth of siluer, and crymsyn Veluet kanteled together all in one sute. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † cantlev.² Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: scantle v. Etymology: Variant of scantle v. Obsolete. rare. = scantle v., to measure by a standard. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > according to rule or standard meteeOE examine1340 puta1382 measurec1384 scan?c1550 cantle1603 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > make proportionate (to) proportiona1398 qualify1548 modulatec1570 proportionate1570 measure1590 cantle1603 apportion1615 equal1618 commensurate1660 scantle1711 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 80 Thyrœus..likely dooth Cantle all Exorcists by himselfe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1315v.¹1548v.²1603
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