Canter: Definition and part of speech

Canter

  1. n. A rapid or easy passing over.
  2. n. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
  3. v. t. To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
  4. n. One who cants or whines; a beggar.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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