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Definition of Cantles
1. cantle [n] - See also: cantle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantles
Literary usage of Cantles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ivories by Alfred Maskell (1905)
"De diver sis artibus, has already been quoted, gives minute directions for the
embellishment of the panels and backs of the cantles of saddles, ..."
2. Walter of Henley's Husbandry: Together with an Anonymous Husbandry by Walter of Henley, William Cunningham (1890)
"... and the half-bushels, and the cantles, and others that they use in the garners
without tally or number, bring little profit to the lord. ..."
3. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... Sam, Humphrey, and the cantles. Moreover, fifty yards off stood a hut, built
of clods and covered with thin turves, but now entirely disused. ..."