Thesaurus: canter

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1. n. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
2. n. A rapid or easy passing over.
3. v. i. To move in a canter.
4. v. t. To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
5. n. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
6. n. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
7. n. a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
8. v. ride at a canter
9. v. go at a canter, of horses
10. v. cause to ride at a cantering pace
11. 1. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding. Note: The canter is a thoroughly artificial pace, at first extremely tiring to the horse, and generally only to be produced in him by the restraint of a powerful bit, which compels him to throw a great part of his weight on his haunches . . . There is so great a variety in the mode adopted by different horses for performing the canter, that no single description will suffice, nor indeed is it easy . . . to define any one of them. J. H. Walsh. 2. A rapid or easy passing over. A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics. Sir J. Stephen. To move in a canter. To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. 1. One who cants or whines; a beggar. 2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. The day when he was a canter and a rebel. Macaulay.
12. n:44/v:56 n. a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop v. ride at a canter v. go at a canter, of horses v. ride at a cantering pace