canter

 

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• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.tə/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkæn.tɚ/, [ˈkɛən.tɚ]
• Rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)

Short for Canterbury pace, from the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury.

canter (plural canters)

1. 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.
2. A ride on a horse at such speed.

• counter-canter

canter (third-person singular simple present canters, present participle cantering, simple past and past participle cantered)

1. (intransitive) To move at such pace.
2. (transitive) To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

• canterer
• counter-canter
• in a canter, at a canter

From cant +‎ -er.

canter (plural canters)

1. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     The days when he was a canter and a rebel.

   • 1974, Bill Wannan, With Malice Aforethought, page 85:

     From lawn-sleeved ranters to kerbstone canters, From bishops to Army lasses.

• Cretan, carnet, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance

canter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cantō

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canter

1. (nautical) to list
2. (reflexive) to lean

canter

1. (northern) Alternative form of chanter
   • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:

     Li Eveske canta la messe

     The bishop performed mass

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

From Old French canter, from Latin cantāre.

canter

1. to sing

   Ej vouroè prinde ed ches lchons por aprinde à canter conme i feut.

   I would like to take some lessons to learn to sing correctly.

      Conjugation in Picard

infinitive			canter
gerund			cantint
auxiliary			avoèr
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cantè		cantèe
		plural		cantès		cantèes
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		ej (j')	tu (t')	i (il)/ale	(n)os	os	is
	present	cante	cantes	cante	cantons	cantez	cantte
	imperfect	cantoé	cantoés	cantoét	cantoinmes	cantoètes	cantoètte
	future	cantrai cantro	cantros	cantro	cantrons	cantrez	cantront
	conditional	cantroé	cantroés	cantroét	cantroinmes	cantroètes	cantroètte
subjunctive		qu'ej (j')	qu'tu (t')	qu'i (il)/ale	qu'(n)os	qu'os	qu'is
	present	cante	cantes	cante	cantonche	cantèche	cantte
imperative		—	tu	—	(n)os	os	—
	affirmative		cante		cantons	cantez