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cantering

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

Movement at a canter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Here are no canterings upon moonlit heaths, no merry-makings in the snuggest of all possible caverns, none of the attractions of dress, no embroidery, no lace, no jack-boots, no crimson coats and ruffles, none of the dash and freedom with which "the road" has been, time out of mind, invested.

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verb

Meaning 2

present participle and gerund of canter

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

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adjective

Meaning 3

riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the cantering soldiers

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