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Definition of Cantlets
1. cantlet [n] - See also: cantlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantlets
Literary usage of Cantlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems by Charles Kingsley (1856)
"A very pretty quarrel Î matter enough To spoil a wagon-load of ash-staves on,
And break a dozen fools' backs across their cantlets. What 's Lewis doing ? ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... cantlets of his buckler strew the ground, And no defence in his bor'd arms is
found. But on his flesh no wound or blood is seen ..."
3. Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck by Richard Wagner, Mathilde Wesendonck (1905)
"For example: at Pesth I had a lovely bud-young singer, with the most soulful
naive voice, for the rendering of cantlets of my Elsa ; she was Hungarian, ..."
4. Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico: Containing Remarks on the by William Bullock (1824)
"... with its defensive cantlets and covering for the horse, that was worn by
Cortez, and the enormous spur of our Henry the Seventh, are now in constant use ..."
5. A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and by Charles Mackay (1887)
"Dryden has,— Huge cantlets of his buckler strew the ground. Here the word means
small fragments. The explanations of Nares, Staunton, Darley, Brachet, ..."
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