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cantle

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The cantle of this saddle it on the right.

The cantle of this saddle it on the right.

noun
    The definition of a cantle is the upward-curving, rear part of a saddle.

    An example of a cantle is the part of a saddle where your lower back rests.


cantle

the upward-curving rear part of a saddle

Origin of cantle

Middle English cantel, a corner, rim, piece from Old French from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Late Latin cantus: see cant


cantle

noun

  1. The raised rear part of a saddle.
  2. A corner, segment, or portion; a piece: a cantle of land.

Origin of cantle

Middle English cantel corner from Old French from Medieval Latin cantellus from Vulgar Latin cantus ; see cant 1.

cantle

cantle

on a western saddle


cantle

Noun

(plural cantles)

  1. ca. 1597, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act III, Scene i:
    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.
  2. 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VI, xlviii:
    Their armors forged were of metal frail;
    On every side thereof huge cantles flies;
    The land was strewed all with plate and mail,
    That on the earth, on that their warm blood lies.
  3. Milton
    In one cantle of his law.
  4. The raised back of a saddle.
Verb

(third-person singular simple present cantles, present participle cantling, simple past and past participle cantled)

  1. (obsolete) To cut into pieces.
  2. (obsolete) To cut out from.
Origin

From Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”).


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  • Western saddle

    Words near cantle in the dictionary


    • cantinire
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    • cantions
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    • cantlet
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    • cantling

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