Cantle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkantəl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cantle is a noun meaning The raised back of a saddle.
Meaning
The raised back of a saddle.
More Meanings
- (Scotland) The top of the head.
- (Scotland) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
- (obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cut into pieces.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cut out from.
Example Sentences
In one cantle of his law.
He recognised a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle.
See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
Next day, he returned with a camel-saddle of equal beauty, the long brass horns of its cantles adorned with exquisite old Yemeni engraving.
Word Forms
- cantles
- cantling
- cantled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cantel, cantlet, clout, cavel, cleft, cant.
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