canter

plural canters

1. A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals.
2. A ride on a horse at such speed.

present singular third person canters · participle present cantering · participle past cantered · past cantered

1. intransitiveTo move at such pace.
2. transitiveTo cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

plural canters

1. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

   The days when he was a canter and a rebel.

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

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   From lawn-sleeved ranters to kerbstone canters, From bishops to Army lasses.

   1974, Bill Wannan, With Malice Aforethought, page 85

plural Canters

1. A surname.