cantle
can·tle 
The cantle of this saddle it on the right.
An example of a cantle is the part of a saddle where your lower back rests.
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cantle
Origin of cantle
Middle English cantel, a corner, rim, piece from Old French from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Late Latin cantus: see cant
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cantle
noun
- The raised rear part of a saddle.
- 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
on a western saddle
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(plural cantles)
- 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.
- 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.
- Their armors forged were of metal frail;
- Milton
- In one cantle of his law.
- The raised back of a saddle.
(third-person singular simple present cantles, present participle cantling, simple past and past participle cantled)
- (obsolete) To cut into pieces.
- (obsolete) To cut out from.
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