Cantle Definition

kăntl
noun
The upward-curving rear part of a saddle.
Webster's New World
A corner, segment, or portion; a piece.
A cantle of land.
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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.
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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.
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Milton.
In one cantle of his law.
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verb
(obsolete) To cut into pieces.
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(obsolete) To cut out from.
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Other Word Forms of Cantle

Noun

Singular:
cantle
Plural:
cantles

Origin of Cantle

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English cantel corner from Old French from Medieval Latin cantellus from Vulgar Latin cantus cant1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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