The AI-powered English dictionary
plural canters
A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals. examples
A ride on a horse at such speed. examples
third-person singular simple present canters, present participle cantering, simple past and past participle cantered
(intransitive) To move at such pace. examples
(transitive) To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. examples
One who cants or whines; a beggar. examples
One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. quotations examples
The days when he was a canter and a rebel.
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
From lawn-sleeved ranters to kerbstone canters, From bishops to Army lasses.
1974, Bill Wannan, With Malice Aforethought, page 85