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canter

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1. canter - Noun

2. canter - Adjective

3. canter - Verb

4. Canter - Proper noun

Meaning

A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.

A rapid or easy passing over.

To move in a canter.

To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness. George Steiner

The canter is a cure for every evil. Benjamin Disraeli

Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles? Georgette Heyer

A scrimmage in a Border Station- A canter down some dark defile- Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail- The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride, Shot like a rabbit in a ride! Rudyard Kipling

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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