Definition of Cantering

1. Adjective. Riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop. "The cantering soldiers"

Participles: Canter

Definition of Cantering

1. Verb. (present participle of canter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cantering

1. canter [v] - See also: canter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantering

cantatrici
cantdog
cantdogs
canted
canted angle
canted angles
canteen
canteen cup
canteen cups
canteens
cantellation
canter
canterburies
canterburys
cantered
cantering
cantering rhythm
canters
cantest
canthal
canthal hypertelorism
canthari
cantharidal
cantharidal collodion
cantharidate
cantharides
cantharidic acid
cantharidin
cantharidins
cantharidism

Literary usage of Cantering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Heart Disease: Practical Points for Students by Edward Mansfield Brockbank (1917)
"VO. FIG. 6. Space between second and first sounds too short. Diastole comparatively prolonged. Cantering rhythm, or Bruit de galop.—In its slighter degrees ..."

2. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1896)
"Several ladies and gentlemen on horseback were cantering and galloping before and behind me. A hint of a story, — some incident which should bring on a ..."

3. Velocipedes, Bicycles, & Tricycles: How to Make & how to Use Them. With a by Velox (1869)
"... First in point of time was the " Cantering Propeller/' invented by Mr. PW Mackenzie, a citizen of the United States, who in 1862 Fig. 6. ..."

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