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Canter   /kˈæntər/   Listen
Canter

noun
1.
A smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop.  Synonym: lope.
verb
(past & past part. cantered; pres. part. cantering)
1.
Ride at a canter.
2.
Go at a canter, of horses.
3.
Ride at a cantering pace.






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"Canter" Quotes from Famous Books



... chetah was quickly unhooded, and loosed from his bonds; and as soon as he viewed the deer he dropped quietly off the cart, on the opposite side to that on which they stood, and approached them at a slow, crouching canter, masking himself by every bush and inequality of ground which lay in in his way. As soon, however, as they began to show alarm, he quickened his pace, and was in the midst of the herd in a ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 19, - Issue 549 (Supplementary issue) • Various

... secret alacrity, although Sally made a becoming show of reluctance. Before they reached the bottom of the hollow, Joe and Jake, seeing two school-mates in advance, similarly mounted, dashed off in a canter, to overtake them, and ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor

... school and meeting his faltering feet in the lane, would toss him up on his shoulder and canter him home with ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... evidence produced tends to confirm the opinion that the wild dog endeavours to seize the quarry by the flanks and tear out the entrails. According to Hodgson the buansu, as it is called in Nepal, runs in a long, lobbing canter, unapt at the double, and considers it inferior in speed to the jackal and fox. It hunts chiefly by day. Six or eight, or more, unite to hunt down their victim, maintaining the chase more by power of smell than by the eye, and usually overcome by force and perseverance, ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

... there is to be seen. Then there is the Park. Two or three hours of the day must at least be spent in the Park. There we all come out to show ourselves and to look at others. There the equestrians canter up and down the Row. Such equestrians too! If foreigners take their ideas of English riding from the Row, they must form a high ...
— Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl - Sister of that "Idle Fellow." • Jenny Wren


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