Hypertext Webster Gateway: "canter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Canter \Can"ter\, n. [An abbreviation of Caner bury. See
Canterbury gallop, under {Canterbury}.]
1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
Note: The canter is a thoroughly artificial pace, at first
extremely tiring to the horse, and generally only to be
produced in him by the restraint of a powerful bit,
which compels him to throw a great part of his weight
on his haunches . . . There is so great a variety in
the mode adopted by different horses for performing the
canter, that no single description will suffice, nor
indeed is it easy . . . to define any one of them. --J.
H. Walsh.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Canter \Can"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cantered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Cantering}.]
To move in a canter.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Canter \Can"ter\, v. t.
To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at
a canter.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Canter \Cant"er\, n.
1. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one
who uses canting language.
The day when he was a canter and a rebel.
--Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
canter
n : an smooth 3-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop [syn: {lope}]
v 1: ride at a canter; "The men cantered away"
2: go at a canter, of horses
3: ride at a cantering pace; "He cantered the horse across the
meadow"
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