| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Canter.[Websters]
2. To be bummed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have tramped, rovered or truanted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be wretched or beggared. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have galloped or scampered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have loped or trotted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have paced or ambled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb canter.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (canter) | 1. Ride at a canter; "The men cantered away".[Wordnet]. 2. Go at a canter, of horses.[Wordnet]. 3. Ride at a cantering pace; "He cantered the horse across the meadow".[Wordnet]. 4. To move in a canter.[Websters]. 5. To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: cantering, cantered, canters, canterer, canterers, canteringly and canteredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "CANTERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Specialty Definition: canter
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Sports & Leisure | The -- is a three-beat gait, followed by a period of suspension when all feet are off the ground. The order is right hind, left hind and right fore, then the left fore followed by the period of suspension. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: canter
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Canter & Siegel | Laurence A. Canter (born June 24, 1953) and Martha S. Siegel (April 9, 1948-2000) were a husband-and-wife firm of lawyers who on April 12, 1994 posted the first massive commercial Usenet spam. To many people, this event, coming not long after the National Science Foundation lifted its unofficial ban on commercial speech on the Internet, marks the end of the Net's early period, when the original Netiquette could still be enforced. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: canter
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Preliminary Canter | Literature | 1: "The real business of the sessions commenced last night... Everything that has preceded the introduction of this measure has been a preliminary canter."- Newspaper paragraph, April 14th, 1894. 2: (A). Metaphorically, means something which precedes the real business in hand. The reference is to the preliminary canter of horses before the race itself begins. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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