Canter Definition
kăntər
cantered, cantering, canters
noun
canters
A smooth, easy pace like a moderate gallop.
Webster's New World
A smooth three-beat gait of a horse that is slower than a gallop but faster than a trot, in which the feet touch the ground in the three-beat sequence of near hind foot, off hind foot and near front foot, off front foot.
American Heritage
The rumbling sound of a cantering horse.
Webster's New World
The definition of a canter is the pace of a horse that is moving at a speed between a trot and a gallop.
When a horse is moving along a meadow, going a little bit faster than trotting but not quite running, the pace at which the horse is moving is an example of a canter.
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verb
cantered, cantering, canters
To ride or move at a canter.
Webster's New World
To cause (a horse) to go at a canter.
American Heritage
To canter is to ride a horse that is moving at a pace in between a trot and a gallop.
When you move along riding on a horse going at mid-speed, a bit faster than trotting, this is an example of a time when you canter the horse.
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Origin of Canter
Ultimately from phrases such as Canterbury gallop after Canterbury England, toward which pilgrims rode at an easy pace
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Short for Canterbury pace, from the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury.
From Wiktionary
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